USC 2017 Competition

Code flown with at the USC 2017 competition. Not alot of work done since the last release 8 months ago, but overall this was a good test of the system and it seemed stable. Alot of work is however required in the path manager that manages the creation and sending of waypoints. Things could be copied over from other commercial ground station suites.

Multi-Gain Command Support

• Added support for multi-gain command, allowing us to send a third of the packets when sending a specific type of gain

Jul 17 Pre-flight Release

• Includes Path manager creation of waypoints fix, as well as numerous data relay and packet type refactors

Unit Testing support

• Mocha is now implemented as the BDD testing framework
• Chai is used as the assertion library
• SinonJS is used as the method stubbing library
• Rewire is used to mock out require calls

Switch to Electron

• Using electron instead of NW.js
• Implemented a robust window management system
• Using jsdocs for inline documentation
• The ground station is now aware of the headers it should expect to receive from data relay, warning the user if an expected header wasn't received
• Central source of validation for every expected header, so that individual views don't have to re-validate data received from data relay station

USC 2016 Competition

Includes bug fixes that were made during the competition.

Competition Release

Revert "Revert "Autonomous level adjust window fixes""

This reverts commit b0eec953c13784837d2159c3cac6a28e2da02b06.

3D View Window

3D View window that shows orientation of plane in 3D space from sensor data.

Release 3.0.1

• No longer using git-lfs and not including satelite files in the repo to make checkouts faster

Release 3.0.0

Huge refactor/rewrite of the old app. New features:

• Leverages node modules alot more allowing for more reusable and modular code
• Now uses Backbone and Marionette javascript frameworks
• Implements an MVC pattern for cleaner and more maintanable code
• Better and more responsive UI
• Resizable sections in the main view
• Multi-window support
• Menu bar support
• NEW Status bar window that shows the general groundstation and picpilot statuses (ie. connected, disconnected, etc)
• A far better console log with multiple levels of logging (each level outputting its own log file)
• Multi-layer support for the map
• NEW Google Satellite and street layer for the map
• Better measurement tool for the map
• NEW Drawing tools for the map