4.1 Creating a New Plan for the Rover
4.1 Creating a New Plan for the Rover
When you start Maestro, the Uplink browser will be hidden and empty. Before you can create targets or perform any other activity planning function, you must make the Uplink browser visible and then either load a saved plan or create a new plan. In this section we describe the steps necessary for creating a new plan.
When a Target is selected, the Details dialog will
display all of the information in
the Targets tab plus several additional read-only values. Among these
are the x,y,z
position of the Target in meters, the x,y, and z components of the
surface normal at
the location of the Target, and the date when the Target was created.
The custodian
and notes fields can be modified in the Details dialog. When modifying
a field in the
Details dialog, note that your change will be applied if you press
Enter or click
somewhere else in the application.
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When you click the New Plan button, the Create New Plan dialog is displayed as shown in Figure 4.1. This dialog asks you to select a Session to associate the new plan with. If you click on the box in the center of the dialog, a list of the available sessions will be displayed. You can think of the Session as a set of instructions that “set the stage” for the activities you are building for the rover. The Session you should select for your plan depends primarily on what Martian day (sol) it would make sense to execute the activities you are developing.
The only session available for use with the ISIL
database (bundled with
Maestro) is called “training”. There is a Session for each site on Mars
that is
released for Maestro with names like “site-000”, “site-001”, etc. Let’s
say that
you have been looking at the results of the rover’s activities at
site-001 and
you would like to build some activities for the rover to execute next.
It this
situation you would select the “site-001” Session in the Create New
Plan
dialog.
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After you select a Session and click OK, a new plan view will be added to the Uplink browser View Grid. This plan will be empty except for a single, blank Observation, and will have the name “Unsaved” in its view’s title bar until you save the plan to a file. The view title bar will also contain the plan’s Session, as shown in Figure 4.2. Note that once you have created a plan, you cannot change its Session. To reuse an activity from another session you must first copy it to a plan in the correct Session. Copying activities between plans is covered in section ??.
Now that you have created a new plan, you can begin adding features and targets. This is covered in the next section.
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