Simulations

This chapter presents the steps required to perform a simulation in the Spacecraft Proximity Operations Testbed, and how to ensure your simulation is properly designed to ensure success in future experiments. Section 2.1 presents the steps required to get the simulation environment established on a personal laptop. Section 2.2 to 2.4 discusses the simulation software and how to use it, and Sec. 2.6 presents a fully working example for the reader to explore.

Personal Computer Setup

All le paths for the software environment (which is responsible for running simulations and compiling code into Linux binaries) should already be set up correctly in SVN. Make sure the following steps have also been completed so that the software environment works properly:

1. Install the Eclipse IDE (necessary for Matlab to compile the Simulink diagrams). Download and install the latest Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers (Mars.2 Release (4.5.2)) for Windows 64-bit from here: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-cc-developers/mars2

2. Install the cross compiling tool chain (so you can compile for Linux on Windows) http://gnutoolchains.com/raspberry/ http://gnutoolchains.com/raspberry/tutorial/

3. Install Cygwin (so you can run "make" commands on Windows for building the Linux binaries) https://cygwin.com/install.html

Configure Cygwin so that the "make" command will work: https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-configure-cygwin-windows/ http://archive.is/WGiqP

4. Ensure that the ground station shared folder is set up correctly as a network drive (necessary for automatically uploading binaries to SPOT and sending commands to SPOT). To let any computer access the shared folder, the folder to share is: The shared folder path is:

See this tutorial for instructions: http://superuser.com/questions/244562/how-do-i-mount-a-network-drive-to-a-folder http://archive.is/lUbri

Video Camera Software