Author:
Castellón A.,Larrubia G.,Castillo R.,Castro-Tirado A. J.,Fernández-García E.,Pérez del Pulgar C.,Reina A.,Castillo-Carrión S.
Abstract
This article describes a fuzzy logic-based method optimized for the dome control of a robotic astronomical observatory. A Mamdani inference has been developed in order to make the decision to open or close the dome. The input variables are obtained from data received from a weather station besides the percentage of cloudy sky as derived by two allsky cameras. The software has been tested at the BOOTES-1 observatory as part of the BOOTES Global Network of Robotic Telescopes led by IAA-CSIC.
Subject
Astronomy and Astrophysics