Intelligence of Astronomical Optical Telescope: Present Status and Future Perspectives

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current state and future prospects of artificial intelligence in enhancing the intelligence of astronomical optical telescopes, highlighting research trends and technological challenges.

Contribution

It uniquely focuses on telescope intelligence, analyzing development history, research hotspots, and future directions, which is rarely addressed in existing AI astronomy literature.

Findings

Identified key research directions in telescope intelligence

Analyzed development trends and hotspots

Proposed future research hotspots for telescope intelligence

Abstract

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.