中国科学院南京天文光学技术研究所机构知识库

A high-tech Large Astronomical Telescope (LAT) integrated with cutting-edgy technologies is universally regarded as one of eye-catching events indicating comprehensive national strength in science and technology. Powerful functions and incredible performance of the telescope control system largely rest on its control infrastructure, which again is built on computer network. In the nut shell, computer network is a foundation stone for the LAT control infrastructure. This paper takes the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) [1], a national large-scale astronomical facility, as an example to focus on its control infrastructure associated with its network configuration features. As the advent of so called 3G age and foreseeable Internet of Things (IOT) some points of analysis regarding the impact of next generation network on the design of contemporary and future astronomical telescope control system is also discussed and envisioned in this paper.