e360 NOVA Setup & Use

Created for University of Sydney; specific to their use case.

Written by Connor Jakubik

Per-User Setup

1. Make an account on https://console.spacecraft-vr.com/

Setup of any newly downloaded Space Teams version

1. Installation & Setup

e360 Startup

1. Do the normal NOVA VR startup instructions
2. Set mode to QUAT in NOVA Manager
3. Start NOVA
4. Ensure Mixed Reality Portal is working properly
5. (Pending setup changes) Check OpenXR Motion Compensation
6. Open the SpaceTeamsPro_x.x.x_e360 folder on the Desktop
7. Every 24 hours, the user needs to reauthenticate:
   1. Open SpaceCRAFT/SpaceCRAFT.exe
   2. Sign in with your https://console.spacecraft-vr.com/ account.
   3. Exit once you see the main menu.
8. To start the VR sim, open SpaceCRAFT/e360_LunarLander.bat
   1. (I might have not yet renamed this from e360_sim.bat)

e360-specific scripts and files

• Compute_Server/packages/Motion_e360/e360_Rotation.py
  • Takes relative state of lander and applies it to the NOVA motion base over a socket connection
• Compute_Server/packages/Motion_e360/sims/LL_Sim_e360.json
  • Sim Config containing sim initial conditions and definitions for System Instances, including the e360 Python System which uses the above path Motion_e360/e360_Rotation.py as its Source