The software controlling the telescopes is a collection of java agents using JADE: http://jade.tilab.com/ http://jade.tilab.com/ There are many agents with dif

The software controlling the telescopes is a collection of java agents using JADE: http://jade.tilab.com/ http://jade.tilab.com/ There are many agents with different responsibilities,from driving the cameras themselves, to the mount, dome, autoguiders, etc. We use a pubsub based model to keep them all in the know.