GitHub - danirukun/spacex-iss-docking-sim-autopilot: Fully automated SpaceX ISS Dragon docking simulator system.

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ISS Sim Automatic Docking System

Table of Contents

Github CI

Video demo:

Want to read more about it? Check the article on Medium.

Running

You can grab a release from Releases, or check the build section. You will need Java installed to run the .jar

You can run the built uberjar with

java -jar iss-sim-auto-docking-standalone.jar

Or you can just double click the .jar

You can also run the project with Leiningen:

Installation

Chrome

Make sure you have the LATEST Chrome version.

Webdriver

Make sure you have the latest WebDriver (or one compatible with your Chrome version).

You can install the latest version on macOS with

brew install chromedriver

Java 8

Make sure you have at least Java 8 installed on your machine, and that it is the active version.

Leiningen

This project uses Leiningen.

Build

You can build an uberjar with

Quick guide

Namespaces

Simulator setup and initializations happen, together with main control flow.

Control logic and drivers related to Dragon are implemented.

Functions related to fetching telemetry and updating telemetry data.

Helper calculations.

Support

Ko-Fi

Bugs

The very final approach speed control is a bit WIP, other than that everything else is fully automatic.

Contributing

Play around with it! Try setting different parameters in the source files. See how it impacts the performance of the autopilot.

License

Copyright © 2020 Daniils Petrovs

This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.

This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the Eclipse Public License, v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version, with the GNU Classpath Exception which is available at https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.