A fuzzy logic based decision algorithm for a heterogeneous telescope network

Author

Lopez-Casado, M.C. ; Perez del Pulgar, C.J. ; Cabello-Castillo, J. ; Munoz, V.F. ; Lara, O. ; Castro-Tirado, A. ; Strobl, J. ; Maureira, E. ; Sanchez, F.M. ; Gonzalez, E.

Author_Institution

Syst. Eng. & Autom. Dept., Univ. de Malaga, Malaga, Spain

fYear

2015

fDate

17-19 March 2015

Firstpage

1814

Lastpage

1819

Abstract

This paper proposes a fuzzy logic based algorithm which decides the best telescope, within a heterogeneous network, taking into account user constraints, weather forecast, visibility and statistical information from every telescope. The main objective of this algorithm is to serve the maximum number of observations as soon as possible, minimizing the reallocation process and improving the selection one. Moreover, this algorithm has been deployed into the GLORIA robotic telescope network, which is composed by 17 heterogeneous telescopes located in different countries, and also, it has been tested using an interface deployed into the GLORIA user website which has been tested by real users. Finally, using this information, a comparison between this algorithm and the previous one, is analyzed.

Keywords

astronomical telescopes; astronomy computing; fuzzy logic; weather forecasting; GLORIA robotic telescope network; GLORIA user Website; astronomy; fuzzy logic based decision algorithm; heterogeneous telescope network; reallocation process; statistical information; user constraints; visibility; weather forecast; Algorithm design and analysis; Control systems; Fuzzy logic; Observatories; Telescopes; Weather forecasting; astronomy; fuzzy; scheduler; software; telescope network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seville

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIT.2015.7125360

Filename

7125360