Re: Observational session control

[Stupendous Man <richmond@a188-l009.rit.edu>]

> I'll be working on a program which will take a set of desired observational
> data and direct the Mark IV through a TAIT socket interface.  The initial
> command set could be as follows:
>  ...
>  Since I
>  have not written any software yet, I'd love to hear that there is a grammar
>  that's already specked, or public software already written, or this is
>  really bad and you should do the grammar like this, or you really should
>  include this and that and the other thing...

  Some earlier efforts:

     The BAIT request system
          Richmond, Treffers and Filippenko, PASP, 105, 1164 (1993)
          also at http://a188-l009.rit.edu/richmond/bait.ps
          See section 6

     The ATIS system
          see "Robotic Observatories", by Genet and Hayes

     RTML (Robotic Telescope Markup Language)
          http://aether.lbl.gov/www/rtml/index.html 


  Maybe some of this will be useful, maybe not.

                                         Michael Richmond