Paper 14145-170
Paper 14145-170
The application software for the Instrument Control Unit of the Ariel mission: design and testing approach
6 July 2026 • 17:30 - 19:00 CEST | Room B4-M3
Abstract
In this paper we present the current status of the development of the application software of the Instrument Control Unit of the Ariel mission, which has the objective to obtain spectra for a number of transiting exoplanets. The Instrument Control Unit provides Command and Control functionalities for the AIRS spectrograph and the Telescope Control Unit, which is used to control and move the secondary mirror mechanism and provides the telescope temperatures.
We will illustrate the main functionalities of the software as well as the approach we are using for testing at different level, from static analysis to unit tests, to functional tests.
Presenter
INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (Italy)
Sebastiano Ligori worked mainly in IR astronomical instrumentation, both ground- and space-based. He has been responsible for the detector system of the MIDI interferometric instrument of the VLTI, and responsible for the application SW of the Intrument Control Unit of the NISP instrument of the Euclid space mission.
Currently he is involved in ESA missions Ariel and NewAthena, and in the Mosaic project for ESO's ELT.