REM: Automatic for the People

We present the result of a year-long effort to think, design, build, realize, and manage the robotic, autonomous REM observatory, placed since June 2003 on the cerro La Silla, ESO Chile. The various aspects of the management and control are here surveyed, with the nice ideas and the wrong dead ends...

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Main Authors: Emilio Molinari, Stefano Covino, Francesco D'Alessio, Dino Fugazza, Giuseppe Malaspina, Luciano Nicastro, Mauro Stefanon, Vincenzo Testa, Gino Tosti, Fabrizio Vitali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2010-01-01
Series:Advances in Astronomy
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/253675