AIAA Propulsive Landing Ground Control

This repository contains scripts and resources to monitor and control the launching of our rocket.

Display layout

Organization

Folder	Contents
live_monitoring	Tools to communicate with rocket during a launch or test
runs	Data from past launches or tests
structure_manager	Tools to synchronize ground control with rocket

First Time Initialization

1. Install python3 from python.org
2. Install poetry: follow poetry installation.
3. Install dependencies: poetry install

Test / Launch Usage

1. Run the command poetry run python3 live_monitoring/gui.py (A gui should appear)
   • If this command fails, try replacing python3 with python, py, python3.12, etc.
2. If default values are not automatically filled in:
   1. Click the Select Struct Defintion Directory button to select where the incoming structure is defined. (It will almost always be in ./structure_manager/data folder)
   2. Click the Select Output Directory to determine where the output folder will be generated.
3. Enter the XBee dongle port name into the GUI (e.g. "COM11")
4. Click Connect Serial and Listen to begin listening for data
5. Click Stop Listening and Save to stop listening (cannot be resumed)
6. Click Reset and Save Graphs when you are done looking at your graphs and want to begin another trial.
   • Reset and Discard will delete all files related to most recent run

Structure Synchronization

1. Run python structure_manager.py in the strucutre_manager folder
2. Modify the types, names, and numbers so it matches what is sent from the flight computer
3. The structure is saved when closing the window

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome!

See contributing.md for ways to get started.