Study of 3D visualization of FAST Active Reflector based on OpenGL and EPICS

Author

Ming-cheng Luo ; Wen-qing Wu ; Peng-yi Tang ; Jia-jin Liu ; Jian Wang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Modern Phys., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei, China

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 27 2013-Nov. 2 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Active Reflector is one of the innovations of Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), whose performance influences the performance of the whole telescope. To avoid the information acquiring being the bottleneck of the whole process and improve the efficiency of telescope observing, 3DViewer, a program of real-time 3D visualization for Active Reflector System (ARS) of FAST based on EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System) and virtual 3D graphics technology- OpenGL, has been developed to display the status in ARS.

Keywords

astronomical techniques; astronomy computing; radiotelescopes; reflector antennas; 3DViewer program; EPICS; FAST active reflector system; OpenGL; aperture spherical radiotelescope; real-time 3D visualization; virtual 3D graphics technology; Control systems; Data models; Monitoring; Rendering (computer graphics); Telescopes; Three-dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0533-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829709

Filename

6829709