Assembly, Integration, Verification and Validation in Extremely Large Telescope Projects, A Core Systems Engineering Task

摘要

Systems Engineering (SE) is that discipline in a project management team, which transfers the users' operational needs and justifications for an Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) -or any other telescope-- into a set of validated required system performance characteristics, and these subsequently into a validated system configuration, and eventually into the assembled, integrated telescope system with verified performance characteristics and provided with "objective evidence that the particular requirements for the specified intended use are fulfilled". The latter is the ISO Standard 8402 definition for "Validation".