MBSE assisted Integration and Verification of SKA-Low: Building the world’s largest radio-telescope in Western Australia’s outback
In the heart of the Western Australia’s outback, where the characteristic red soil stretches up to the wide horizon, through the joint effort of many Australian and international suppliers and partners, coordinated by the SKA Observatory, the world’s largest radio telescope is taking shape. SKA-Low, designed to unlock the secrets of the Universe in partnership with its brother SKA-Mid, being built in South Africa, is a uniquely complex system, spanning across multiple technological domains, and a wide range of socio-cultural influences.
The keynote will present the current status of the build of Array Assembly 0.5, the first Milestone of the SKA-Low Telescope, and address the key challenges, success stories, and lessons learned, on the still long journey of the construction of the Square Kilometre Array.
Lucio Tirone is the Assembly, Integration and Verification Lead Engineer for the Square Kilometre Array Observatory, with responsibility over the integration and verification phases of the low frequency radio telescope SKA-Low. Starting from a background in software based electromagnetics, he grew a field expertise of over 25 years in Systems Engineering activities in large technological projects in the Defense, Aerospace and Transport sectors. He has been Head of the Systems Engineering department of Fincantieri, the largest Italian naval shipbuilder, co-founder and Technical Director of the engineering company Aster, Director of the EMEA Sector (Europe, Middle East and Africa) of INCOSE, the International Council on Systems Engineering, and co-founder and President of the Italian Association of Systems Engineering.
Lucio Tirone has been a lecturer in Systems Architecture / Design courses in the context of several Level II Master Degrees in Systems Engineering (with the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, the Distretto Ligure delle Tecnologie Marine in La Spezia/Genova, the Italian Joint Armed Forces Telecommunications School, in Chiavari) and holds the INCOSE ESEP Certification (Certified and Expert Systems Engineering Professional) and OCSMP Certification (OMG-Certified Systems Modeling Professional).