Meeting 20/06:

• Ask for the tolerances
• Experiments (not much room - explicit it): consider different initial conditions for the planets - change the launching date
• Experiment: Landing phase - heavier wind - weaker wind - bigger or smaller range of the wind - initial conditions from the lander - evaluate the cost while changing the conditions

• Can use parachutes
• Can implement it as a sphere with thrusters on the side
• Have to use knowledge rom CS2 for the GUI
• No need to calculate rotation for landing
• Must be 2D, 3D is extra
• Can check Kudos for real information (something related to Mars, Don’t know what it is)

About the report:

• Not needed to divide the report by phases
• Divide it by approaches - steps
• Missing in the introduction: Problem - hypothesis research question
• Divide Models into theoretical background and implementation
• Include the data sources into the report
• Create an experiment chapter with every values and stuffs in. A big section. So we keep the theoretical background into the chapter before
• Pseudo code in appendix or in the chapter itself (depends on its length), link to the references + screenshot + steps to launch the demo
• 15-20 pages
• Don’t underestimate the writing - Start TODAY
• Don’t use “I”,”we”,… More formal such as “in this report”
• Someone not familiar with this subject or all program, should be able to read it easily

Else:

• No real ranking because it depends on mass, etc. But be in the average
• Next meeting in Tapijn Z 013
• Have to define a landing position in advance - probably not possible in our case - include experiments with values and errors to prove that our controller works
• PD controller needs the final point
• We would like to improve to be able to take the orbit of titan and land on a defined position
• Acceleration for launching from Titan has to be realistic - consider our thrusters powerful enough
• Ho to estimate the cost…? Info about the fuel and engines online - linear (for example) model depending on the speed and real data
• Prove the controller works for the trajectory to reach Titan
• Try to land on Titan from orbit with PD controller and then reach titan’s orbit with the genetic algorithm
• Can use Euler and Adams Bashfort if we justify why

-Missing Gant Chart
-Try to explain everything during the presentation
-Have to come up with a different method to reduce the error
-Organization can be improved
-Organize and divide the tasks
-Start the report asap and we can send it to check
-Have to take notes at every meeting and send them
-Ask Peter Collins for the technical issue
-Talk to Jan for the 3D model
-The GUI is not the priority

• Any rocket shape is fine, just say what we choose
• Higher order differential implementation is important
• Notations of formulas in the book
• GUI less important then the physics model
• Can land in 2D, compare the error etc. -> Going to receive more info about the landing rotations (by email)
• Need to focus on the 2D coordinates for landing
• No meeting in week 5

Meeting 30/04

To have in 2 weeks:

• A bit of wind stuffs
• Landing stuffs
• The feedback controllers
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• Check on feedback controllers -> take the wind into account and don’t throw it, make it as a “parabola”
• Type of rotation - orientate to land perpendicular to the ground
• Simplify the calculations (wind stable and 1 direction and 2D)

Pre Examination

Add to the presentation:

• What improved we for the catapult from phase 1 with results
• Include previous results with previous approach and compare it to new results with new approach
• Conclusion: make sure to come back to the research questions and answers

Report:

• Content: structure ok
• Real content: no feedback
• Can leave the image
• Add instructions to use the program
• Don’t leave a space in (sub)sections’ title - everything aligned to the actual text
• Latex if enough time

Language guy:

• Seems like it is a task, believe in ur project Convince people and be professional
• Don’t say in front of the slides
• Can sit down and the one who is presenting is standing up -> depends on the room availability
• Be strict and closed attitude, get the attention to yourself
• Good slides
• Acceptable prononciation
• Exagerate the English prononciation
• Coherent presentation

• Implement realistic wind values
• Set initial conditions, launch the lander mode, see the results with the feedback controller and the open loop
• if enough time: Statistical analysis with wind and the 2 techniques (feedback and open loop) to reach the target
• Find the errors
• Forget about all this other parts
• Check what we are missing from phase 1 and 2
• Check phase 3 to plan the future and the gant chart for the presentation
• Start of the analysis (would be nice)
• Start of the presentation
• Show that everybody is working, and be able to tell who did what for phase 3