Intelligence of Astronomical Optical Telescope: Present Status and Future Perspectives
It provides a targeted overview for researchers in astronomy and AI to understand the current state and future directions of telescope intelligence, but it is incremental as it builds on existing reviews.
This paper addresses the lack of focused reviews on telescope intelligence by comprehensively analyzing its development, research hotspots, and trends in astronomy, evaluating various research directions and pointing out future prospects.
Artificial intelligence technology has been widely used in astronomy, and new artificial intelligence technologies and application scenarios are constantly emerging. There have been a large number of papers reviewing the application of artificial intelligence technology in astronomy. However, relevant articles seldom mention telescope intelligence separately, and it is difficult to understand the current development status and research hotspots of telescope intelligence from these papers. This paper combines the development history of artificial intelligence technology and the difficulties of critical technologies of telescopes, comprehensively introduces the development and research hotspots of telescope intelligence, then conducts statistical analysis on various research directions of telescope intelligence and defines the research directions' merits. All kinds of research directions are evaluated, and the research trend of each telescope's intelligence is pointed out. Finally, according to the advantages of artificial intelligence technology and the development trend of telescopes, future research hotspots of telescope intelligence are given.