Additional Liaison:  Edgar Herrera <edgar.herrera@aero.org>

The team will develop the software for the SimPlat, Cub, and GS, creating the command and control system, telemetry processing, space dynamics simulation, image recognition, and machine learning system. The software development team will use appropriate collaboration tools. Develop the following software:

• Develop GS with intuitive user interface

• For SimPlat, read real-time signals from Cub, interpret intended motion, and move vehicle to simulate motion in space, communicate status with GS, receive instructions from GS
• For Cub, interpret proximity sensor data to approach/avoid objects, process camera image data and understand what it’s looking at, send/receive thruster status, control payload mechanism, communicate status and receive commands from GS.
• For GS, two-way communication with Cub and SimPlat, ability to compare action/response data of Cub and SimPlat.

Project Description: CubeSat is a space deorbiting vehicle designed to remove space junk or debris that is cluttering Earth's lower orbit. This project is designed to simulate 3D space movement in a 2D environment using CubeSat as the brains and SimPlat, a set of omniwheels capable of moving in any cardinal direction and rotate, to act as thrusters. The goal is program CubeSat to be able to locate and track a moving target using its camera and maintain a safe distance by issuing commands to SimPlat. Depending on the commands received, SimPlat will activate its "thrusters," moving accordingly to how CubeSat believes it should be moving in a space environment and will keep that momentum until a counter-thrust is performed to stop that motion. Users will be able to start and stop CubeSat's navigation program from Ground Systems with the use of a button as well see what CubeSat sees.

  Adviser/Liaison Meeting time: Friday from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm