Functioned-based Systems Engineering for the Design of Astronomical Instruments and Control Systems Architectures

Level: Introductory Length: 4 hours Format: In-Person Lecture Intended Audience: Systems engineers and design engineers (all disciplines) who wish to learn how to design a robust system architecture that will deliver the science using a novel functioned-based engineering methodology. Instrument scientists who wish to learn more about instrument design systems engineering. Description: This course provides a novel functioned-based systems engineering methodology for the design of astronomical instruments and control systems architectures. The primary goal of this course is to provide a framework and a well-proven recipe to develop robust system architectures based on the functional requirements of the system. The course will be exercise-driven, and the participants will design the system architecture of an instrument during the course. During the course, we will illustrate how the proposed system architecture can meet the science requirements and objectives as well as how the system architecture drives the technical performance requirements. Learning Outcomes: This course will enable you to: - prepare concept solutions - perform a functional analysis and deriving the functional performance requirements - develop a system architecture for an astronomical instrument - design the system architecture - implement functions - analyze the science requirements and objectives Instructor(s): Hermine Schnetler has been a Systems Engineer for many years, initially working in the Defence and Telecommunication industries and joined the United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) in 2005. She tailored and successfully introduced systems engineering for astronomy and was also involved in a number of instrument studies. Currently Dr. Schnetler is the systems engineer for the HARMONI Integral Field Spectrograph and the HARMONI Control System. HARMONI is one of the first light instruments for the European Extremely Large Telescope. She has a first degree in Electronics Engineering and an MSc in Systems Engineering. Both of these were obtained from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She followed this with a PhD in Software Engineering from Cranfield University, UK. Dr Schnetler is a member of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), a member of the Institute for Engineering Technology and SPIE. Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022 Course Held: 20 July 2022