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The Durham Adaptive Optics Real-time Controller

A powerful, flexible and generic real-time control system (RTCS) for adaptive optics.

Suitable for use with any AO system, from laboratory benches up to ELT-scale. Flexible camera and DM interface modules, with tens of scientific cameras, and many different DMs integrated.

Available for download with a GNU Affero GPL licence from https://sourceforge.net/projects/darc2/

Feel free to download, install and test, to see whether darc can suit your requirements for real-time control. We think it probably can.

If you need help or advice, don't hesitate to contact us using the form below.

We can help with

• Generic system development
• Installation
• Configuration
• Interface development (camera/WFS/DM etc)
• Telemetry interfaces
• Algorithm development
• etc

Features:

• High performance, low latency.
• Modular design (allowing you to customise easily)
• ELT ready
• Advanced telemetry interface
• Large number of advanced algorithms including
•  Support for FPGA and GPU acceleration
•  Adaptive windowing
•  Correlation centroiding
•  Distributed computing
•  Asynchronous wavefront sensing
•  Figure sensing for open-loop AO
•  And many many more...