Path: SC/GUIPlugIn
% Draw spacecraft in orbit about a planet. Includes a separate controls window. The controls window allows for zooming and orbiting the camera, adjusting the ambient light, and changing renderer or camera target. Only external surfaces, as identified by the 'inside' component parameter, will be drawn. ] There are three calls you need to make when using this plugin. (1) Initialize: tag = DrawSCPlugIn( 'initialize', g, hFig, position, planet, jD ) g is the spacecraft CAD data structure. It must have the following fields: .rECI, ECI orbit position of the spacecraft (km). .qLVLH, needed for camera pointing The inertial quaternion (body to ECI) should be stored with the first body. The spacecraft model must be in meters. hFig is the handle to the figure window position is an array [left bottom width height] which gives the position of the plugin in the window planet is the name of any planet in the toolbox, the default is 'earth' jD is the Julian date; passed to SunV1 for solar lighting If hFig is not entered it will create a new window. You need to save tag to call the function in subsequent calls. (2) Update with new state or attitude information When passing new information to the plugin use DrawSCPlugIn( 'update spacecraft', tag, g, jD ) (3) Close the windows To close the display type DrawSCPlugIn( 'quit', tag ) The plugin will scale the spacecraft model up to 5% of the ECI position vector in order for the spacecraft to be rendered by MATLAB. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Form: DrawSCPlugIn( action, modifier, hFig, position, planet, jD ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Inputs ------ action (1,:) Action modifier (1,:) Modifier to the action hFig (1,1) Handle to the figure or if 'update' is jD position (1,4) [left bottom width height] planet (1,:) Planet name (corresponding to a mat-file) jD (1,1) Julian Date ------- Outputs ------- tag (1,:) The tag that identifies the display --------------------------------------------------------------------------
ACPro: Help/HelpSystem AerospaceUtils: CAD/BHinge Common: General/CloseFigure Common: General/GetListString Common: Quaternion/QTForm Common: Quaternion/QZero Common: Time/Date2JD Math: Linear/Cross Math: Linear/DupVect Math: Linear/Mag Math: Linear/Unit SC: BasicOrbit/El2RV SC: Ephem/ECIToPlanet SC: Ephem/SunV1 SC: SCMat/EarthMR SC: SCModels/SCForImaging SC: Visualization/PlotPlanet
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