Software Team Home

The Software Team is composed of several people from the Avionics Team and Ground Team, with other software folks. It has its own mailing list. The software includes both Ground Software (Launch Control and Tower) and Flight Computer Software.

Current to do list

System Requirements

Current Software Requirements

System Information

BlockDiagram of the LV2 Avionics System

Software Tools

AvionicsSVNAccess: getting access to the Avionics software
- Browse the repository on the web
DevelopmentEnvironmentForLv2: Instructions for building and using the Avionics software.
OrinocoWirelessSetup
DebianCrossCompilerHowto
PowerPCKernelBuilding
SudoSetup
?Terrain modeling

Flight Computer Software

FlightComputerSoftware: Notes on the current flight computer software.
- CanBusLinuxDriver: All about the FlightComputer CAN driver
- FlightComputerStateFlowSep2003: The launch, flight and recovery sequence.
- OUT OF DATE: CanBusIDs list the data packets for the LV2 CAN bus
Hardware: FlightComputer, and our searchfor a NEW flight computer: LvTwoFlightComputerSearch

Flight Computer (FC) and Launch Tower Computer (LTC) setup

FlightComputerSoftware2002: MOPS board Linux configuration
FlightComputerDrive: Notes on how to get the CompactFlash disk up and running.
FlightComputerArchitectures: A discussion of different ways of implementing the flight computer application.

Ground Software

Network

Other Software Info

RocketSim: Rocket Simulator
InertialNavigation: Inertial nav code and discussions
PacketConverter program for LV1b data
FlightComputerSoftware / RocketSim / LaunchControl demo movie (12MB), original vncrec file (10MB)
DataAnalysis: An automated tool to crunch on our data

Methodologies

EmbeddedExtremeProgramming: XP and Mach 2; extreme methods for extreme environments?
HaskellProgramming: functional, lazy, provably-correct rocket software?
EsterelProgramming: state machines are your friends

Meeting Minutes

2005
Date	Summary
2005-10-12	Discuss plans for the future.
2005-03-16	Test Jamey's new driver/FC/sequencer changes, PPC discussions, rocketview changes.

2004
Date	Summary
2004-12-22	Software team meeting: more code cleanup
2004-12-15	Software team meeting
2004-12-07	Flight computer code review
2004-11-17	Simulator work; LV1 gyro/video data; new member introductions
2004-10-27	Software meeting: Cleanup on FC software
2004-07-20	FC/LTC infrastructure work: Jamey pity's the uncanny cantalope
2004-05-31	FC software braindump with James at his house.
2004-05-26	FC software with James on Speaker phone.
2004-03-24	CANtalope, GPS and the CAN driver.
2004-02-01	Joint meeting with Communications and Professor Jim Binkley about 802.11b and the Linux drivers

2003
Date	Summary
2003-11-18	CANtalope and CAN driver work
2003-11-11	CANtalope and CAN driver work
2003-11-04	CANtalope and CAN driver work
2003-10-07	Joint avionics meet, requirements for next launch
2003-09-21	Last last minute LTC/FC integration and debugging
?SoftwareTeamNotes29Jul2003	Status, Integration & Build, Protocol updates, LTC UI
2003-07-22	Non-PDX tasks, Protocols, LTC, Rocketview API, Routers
2003-07-08	Timestamp discussion
2003-07-01	State machine refinement, protocol additions
2003-06-24	Things to do by August 22nd; Try #6 on Flight Computer State Machine
2003-06-09	USENIX demo: can driver and FIFO bugfixes, rocketview net protocol fixes. Good to go!
2003-06-02	USENIX work: IMU->FC->802.11b->TC works! APS starting to work!
2003-04-16	Software status, todo
2003-03-12	Ground software architecture
2003-03-05	Message flow-derived flight computer software architecture
2003-02-26	Software Requirements, Schedules, State Machine, ?ActionTrackerPlugin
2003-02-19	Software Requirements, Task Assignments