Planning tools

Mars Volatile and Climate Surveyor - Mars Polar Lander

The MVACS Polar Lander synthetic model
 

Index

The MVACS lander panel
How to move the SSI camera in Viz
How to move the Robotic Arm in Viz

The MVACS lander panel

In order to bring up the MVACS lander panel, click on Setting -> "MVACS lander".
 
The panel offers the following feature: 
  1. Add/Remove the MVACS lander (checked is Add)
  2. Show/Hide the lander
  3. Add/Remove the Robotic Arm (simple version with draggers)
  4. Add/Remove the Robotic Arm (used by Virtual Robot)
  5. Launch "Virtual Robot" to control the Robotic Arm (only if you added the RA (see 4.))
  6. Display the Pan/Til angles [rad] (** doesn't not work well, yet **)
  7. Show what the Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) sees (Show SSI Viewpoint)
  8. Show the SSI field-of-view
  9. Switch between the left, right of stereo field-of-view representation.
  10. Show what the Robotic Arm Camera sees (Show RAC Viewpoint)
  11. Show the RAC field-of-view
In order to show the Robotic Arm Camera Viewpoint or Field-of-View, you need to add the Robotic Arm.
 

How to move the SSI camera in Viz

The model of the SSI includes 2 cylindrical draggers around each motor axis. 
In arrow mode (press ESC to switch from a hand cursor to an arrow cursor), you can click on these draggers (left mouse button), hold the button down and move the camera. 
 
 

How to move the Robotic Arm in Viz

There are 2 ways of moving the Robotic Arm: