CARMENES. IV: instrument control software

  Guardia, Josep
  Colome, Josep
  Ribas, Ignasi
  et al.
  
  Paper 8451-108 of Conference 8451
  Date: Sunday, 01 July 2012  
  
  The overall purpose of the CARMENES instrument is to perform high-accuracy
  measurements of stellar radial velocities (1 m/s) with long-term stability.
  CARMENES will be installed in 2014 at the 3.5 m telescope in the Calar Alto
  Observatory and it will be equipped with two channels for spectroscopic data
  collection at near-IR and visible windows. The instrument coordination and
  management is handled by the Instrument Control System (ICS), which implements
  the CARMENES operational design and is responsible to carry out an efficient
  operation of the full instrument. We present the ICS architecture design and
  the APIs for low- and high-level communication.