Software platform developed for the robotic control of telescopes.
OpenROCS conforms an independent control layer for robotic observatories. It is a master scheduler of the processes that the system has to execute and a monitor of the overall state of the observatory. It controls the end-to-end data flow and the housekeeping processes by handling a set of predefined events. The former are responsible for ensuring that the system executes the routine operation by maximizing the scientific return of the facility. While the latter consider all those anomalous situations that could put the observatory at risk and activate corrective or mitigation actions. All the applications running at the observatory and the hardware components interact with it. It is released under GNU/GPL public license.
This code was published in SourceForge between 2012 and 2014, and for this reason it only works with PHP 5.6, I made improvements to run it in PHP 7 but the code of the new releases was closed and never published as free software. The main code is found in the code directory, to use it, simply enter to the code directory and type ./orocs help:
Usage: ./orocs command [parameters]
Available single commands:
shell open an interactive shell (default if not command is present)
help display this screen
start launch the main server process
restart restart the main server process
reload same as restart but without losing data
stop stop the main server process
status check the server state
dump dump all stacks and their keys and values
check run a quick validation test
history display the command history (only exists in the interactive shell)
Available commands that need parameters:
get [none] return a list with all stacks
STACK return a list with all data in the STACK
STACK KEY return the value of the KEY in the STACK
TIMESTAMP return a list with the modified stacks from TIMESTAMP
STACK TIMESTAMP return a list with the modified data from TIMESTAMP in the STACK
add/create STACK create the STACK if not exists
STACK KEY add the KEY to the STACK
STACK KEY=VALUE add the KEY with their VALUE to the STACK
update/set STACK KEY=VALUE update in the STACK the KEY with the new VALUE
remove/delete STACK remove the STACK only if exists and is void
STACK KEY remove the KEY in the STACK if exists
stop SERVICE pause the service requested
status SERVICE check the status of the service requested
start SERVICE continue the service requested
The documentation is found in the docs directory:
🔗 This document contains the original documentation published in SourceForge at year 2012.
🔗 This document contains the final work used in the defense of my degree studies published at year 2015
🔗 This document contains the presentation used in the defense of my degree studies published at year 2015
This work is property of the IEEC and it was released under GNU/GPL public license. It was developed by me when I worked there and it was presented as a final work of my degree studies, you can see the publication at the UPC and the source code of the project at SourceForge.