MATTO (Multi-conjugate Adaptive Techniques Test Optics) is a wide-field adaptive optics test bench, under development at the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Padova, with the goal of supporting the study and development of new Multi-Conjugated Adaptive Optics techniques. Hence, it has been designed to be flexible and composed of independently configurable modules. The DAO4MATTO Real-Time Control system will be a system-tailored implementation of DAO, the new RTC software solution developed at Durham University, that will interface with and control several devices with different purposes. After a short presentation of the main concepts of MATTO, we briefly discuss the hardware and software architecture of DAO4MATTO. Furthermore, we show some preliminary findings obtained in a closed-loop scenario for a basic prototype system, composed of two visible wavelength cameras, a Shack Hartmann wavefront sensor and a deformable mirror.
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