DSP Astraunatics Project

Create a Simulation for the Astronautics Department of Kingston University based on the "Mission to Neptune Report" produced by a student group in 2013.

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Tuesday, 18 November 2014


Semi Final version of our Project

There were quite a few things we as a group came up with today during the lecture and after.

Group Name & logo - 

We were advised that creating a group name and logo will make our activities more formal and realistic. Also it will enable group to come together. We have decided to call our selves Oceanus Simulations. 'Oceanus' was the proposed name for Neptune before it became known as Neptune. Credit to Matias for coming up with it. The logo is expected to be finalized within the next few days.

What does Oceanus Simulations do?

Create a Simulation to attract A/L students based on the Mission To Neptune Report by the Astronautics student group. (this is what we came up with for what we do in under 15 words)

Decisions made today

today we decided on some of the details of our simulation.
  • As the group wanted a part of the simulation for the spectators (those not using the oculus), and since adding another camera was was not working (causing unity to crash) according to Rob's research; we decided to have our simulation in two parts. 
    1. the presentation part will be geared toward the spectators and will be less interactive and more informative. This part will cover the journey of the probe form Earth to Neptune. (more like a video simulation)
    2. the Oculus part of the simulation will cover the mission once the probe has reached Neptune. Here we will have a gamefication of the data collection of the probe. This is where we will have the interactive part of the simulation. 
  • My Work Flow for the Immediate future
    • As soon as our mentor Dr. Claouse gives the go ahead for our final version I will communicate with Deon and Luke to identify the details of our final version and collaborate with Rob and figure out a work plan and implement it.
    • This week we hope to get the design part of the project out of the way so we can start constructing the simulation. I will detail the tasks once we finalize.
    • Preliminary presentation on the 25th Nov, prepare a rough outline of what the presentation part of the simulation will do for the Tuesday presentation.
    • Look at Github as a code system as Rob will be working along with myself
    • Create a road map for the technical side of this project.
    • Work on the presentation for Tuesday, we will probably meet as a group on Sunday for this.

Summary of Assigned tasks

  • prepare a rough demo of the presentation part of the simulation for the presentation on Tuesday (maybe we need a better name)
  • make a workflow plan once the design is finalized
  • start working on building the simulation - co-ordinate with Rob.
  • meet Sunday to prepare for presentation

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