  The CHARA Array is the longest baseline optical interferometer in the world.
Operated with natural seeing, it has delivered landmark sub-milliarcsecond
results in the areas of stellar imaging, binaries, and stellar diameters.
However, to achieve ambitious observations of faint targets such as young
stellar objects and active galactic nuclei, higher sensitivity is required. For
that purpose, adaptive optics are developed to correct atmospheric turbulence
and non-common path aberrations between each telescope and the beam combiner
lab. This paper describes the AO software and its integration into the CHARA
system. We also report initial on-sky tests that demonstrate an increase of
scientific throughput by sensitivity gain and by extending useful observing
time in worse seeing conditions. Our 6 telescopes and 12 AO systems with tens
of critical alignments and control loops pose challenges in operation. We
describe our methods enabling a single scientist to operate the entire system.
