%0 Journal Article %T Gemini Planet Imager integration to the Gemini South telescope software environment %A Fredrik T. Rantakyr£¿ %A Andrew Cardwell %A Jeffrey Chilcote %A Jennifer Dunn %A Stephen Goodsell %A Pascale Hibon %A Bruce Macintosh %A Carlos Quiroz %A Marshall D. Perrin %A Naru Sadakuni %A Leslie Saddlemyer %A Dmitry Savransky %A Andrew Serio %A Claudia Winge %A Ramon Galvez %A Gaston Gausachs %A Kayla Hardie %A Markus Hartung %A Javier Luhrs %A Lisa Poyneer %A Sandrine Thomas %J Physics %D 2014 %I arXiv %R 10.1117/12.2055654 %X The Gemini Planet Imager is an extreme AO instrument with an integral field spectrograph (IFS) operating in Y, J, H, and K bands. Both the Gemini telescope and the GPI instrument are very complex systems. Our goal is that the combined telescope and instrument system may be run by one observer operating the instrument, and one operator controlling the telescope and the acquisition of light to the instrument. This requires a smooth integration between the two systems and easily operated control interfaces. We discuss the definition of the software and hardware interfaces, their implementation and testing, and the integration of the instrument with the telescope environment. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2311v1