@inproceedings{1f22d273317344e480aa1b1069501359,
title = "The instrument control unit of the PLATO payload: design consolidation following the preliminary design review by ESA",
abstract = "PLATO is an M-class mission (M3) of the European Space Agency (ESA) whose launch is scheduled in 2026. The main aim of the mission is the detection and characterization of terrestrial exoplanets orbiting around bright solar-type star. The payload consists of 26 small telescopes: 24 {"}normal{"} cameras and 2 {"}fast{"} cameras. The huge amount of data produced by the PLATO telescopes is acquired and processed on-board by the Data Processing System (DPS) made up by various processing electronic units. The DPS of the PLATO instrument comprises the Normal and Fast DPUs (Data Processing Units) and a single ICU (Instrument Control Unit), are data routed through a SpaceWire network. The topic of this paper is the description of the architecture of the ICU and its role within the DPS, the status of the Avionic Validation Model (AVM) testing at the end of the Unit Preliminary Design Review (UPDR) performed by ESA and the results of the test of the first engineering model.",
keywords = "Data Processing System, Exoplanets, Instrument Control Unit, Large survey, Space Mission, Transit photometry, Instrument control unit, Space mission, Data processing system",
author = "R. Cosentino and Mauro Focardi and Stefano Pezzuto and G. Giusi and Emanuele Galli and Manuel G{\"u}del and Franz Kerschbaum and Roland Ottensamer and Armin Luntzer and Dominik Loidolt and {Di Giorgio}, {Anna Maria} and Scige Liu and Alessio Traficante and David Biondi and Johann Hasiba and Karl Hofmann and Harald Jeszenszky and G. Laky and Harald Ottacher and Michael Steinberger and Steller, {Manfred B.} and Jorge Tonfat and Robert Wallner and Sonja Neukirchner and Mario Leichtfried and {Del Vecchio Bianco}, Carlo and L. Serafini and Devitt Dini and Luca Pilato and Luca Toscano and Valfredo Zolesi",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562003",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)",
editor = "Makenzie Lystrup and Perrin, {Marshall D.}",
booktitle = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020",
}