The Gemini Planet Imager is an extreme AO instrument with an integral field spectrograph (IFS) operating in Y, J, H, and K bands. Both the Gemini telescope and the GPI instrument are very complex systems. Our goal is that the combined telescope and instrument system may be run by one observer operating the instrument, and one operator controlling the telescope and the acquisition of light to the instrument. This requires a smooth integration between the two systems and easily operated control interfaces. We discuss the definition of the software and hardware interfaces, their implementation and testing, and the integration of the instrument with the telescope environment.
@article{arxiv.1407.2311,
title = {Gemini Planet Imager integration to the Gemini South telescope software environment},
author = {Fredrik T. Rantakyrö and Andrew Cardwell and Jeffrey Chilcote and Jennifer Dunn and Stephen Goodsell and Pascale Hibon and Bruce Macintosh and Carlos Quiroz and Marshall D. Perrin and Naru Sadakuni and Leslie Saddlemyer and Dmitry Savransky and Andrew Serio and Claudia Winge and Ramon Galvez and Gaston Gausachs and Kayla Hardie and Markus Hartung and Javier Luhrs and Lisa Poyneer and Sandrine Thomas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.2311},
year = {2015}
}
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13 pages, 7 figures. Proceedings of the SPIE, 9149-87