NASA Space App Challenge Year 2014 Title: Shuttle Object Advisor Group Name: Code Junckies
Authors:
Matthew Wellings :
Role: Maths and Physics Coding
Degree: Physicist 3rd Year Ungergradute OpenUniversity
Aleksej Parovysnik :
Role: Animations Rendering
Degree: Computer Science 3rd Year Undergradute Newcastle University
Manu Antony:
Role: Animations & Interfacing Stages
Degree: Computer and Electronic Engineering 3rd Year Newcastle University
Maio Wei: (AKA Awesome TED)
Role: Lead Maths and Physics simulator (using Matlab)
Degree: Electrical Engineering 1st Year Liverpool University
Ashish Patil:
Role: Layout Designer & GUI Coder
Degree: Advanced Computer Science Master Newcastle University
Abdul AL-Faraj:
Role: Maths and Physics Coder
Degree: Electronic and Computer Engineering 3rd Year Newcastle University
Description: There are 4 stages of this project:
1- GUI (user interface) which helps the user to navigate of available list of shuttles to locate near objects.
2- The GUI also includes an animation part of the GUI where earth, satellites and shuttles aresimulated in real time.
3- Orbits equations that bounds the shuttle objects and the satellites objects (this part we call the physics engine )
4- Interfacing all the previous 3 stages done at the end of the project through wrapper classes and others.
The project is built in Java; utilizing Java3D library as well as others.
We have established for now:
-- Full GUI interface ready to be hooked to back-end functions.
-- Finished simulating Earth, Sat math models
-- Finished animating Earth, Sat graphic models
-- All the above stages have been interfaced
Future Improvements:
-- Fix the rotation [Done]
-- Add Shuttle as part of the animations [Done]
-- Others!
Drawbacks:
-- Collision Detection System is needed
-- 2D mathematical modelling where 3D is more practical and realistic
Future Commitments:
The team is very keen to keep developing this application...
From Team Code Junckies: "Happy Coding"
Notice: All authors were present in person at York University - Computer Science School at the time of the challenge...
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