Welcome to the Satellite Tracking - Cadmus web page.
Do not hesitate to contact me at serdar(dot)usenmez(at)gmail(dot)com for any issues or questions regarding the software. For problems with the assignment itself, however, your instructor is the person that you should speak to.
Good luck, and thank you for your feedback regarding the simulator.
Downloads
The latest simulator version is 2.4.5141.30181.
You may download the latest version of the simulator using the links below.
- Full package (7,676,993 bytes)
- Executable only (69,726 bytes)
In order to develop code for the Arduino board, you require the Arduino IDE. You should download the “Windows Installer” version, which also includes the USB drivers needed to communicate with the board.
Important: You also need to have the following software installed in your PC in order to be able to run the simulator software (click to be redirected to the download pages):
Update Notes
Update: January 28th 2014, 17:08
New release: Version 2.4.5141.30181- Fixed the sign of elevation and azimuth errors displayed on the main screen. Thank you Ozan Gerger!
- The error message displayed when using WriteConsole() with an inconsistent parameter count is a little bit more informative now. Thank you Ozan Gerger!
- Using a somewhat lengthy WriteConsole() with a low sampling time was causing the simulator to slow down because the console box isn't fast enough. The console now updates in chunks, alleviating the symptom a bit. I hope to switch to a fast text box in the future.
- There is now an option to automatically clear the console when it exceeds a certain line count. This is enabled and set to 500 lines by default.
- When the simulation is running on the designer mode and slows down too much for some reason, timer-and-multithread thingies were causing erratic behaviors. This is now fixed. Instead, you will see a "(slowed)" remark next to the simulation time on the main screen without any erratic side effects. Thank you Gökhan Yaşar!
Update: January 5th 2014, 20:41
New release: Version 2.4.5118.36942- Updated antenna physical properties.
Update: October 14th 2013, 13:29
New release: Version 2.4.5066.20703- Added new code examples and updated existing ones for C# and Arduino.
Update: October 13th 2013, 17:10
- Updated the simulator to .NET Framework 4 and XNA Framework 4.0.
- Fixed inconsistencies between actual satellite trajectory and the description image in settings tab.
- Fixed shading of satellite dot on grid and made antenna dot turn from green to yellow as signal level drops.
Update: October 12th 2013, 14:50
- Renewed the web site. It's much more tidy now, and it has a quick walkthrough of the simulator.
- If there are any changes to the code in the design tab, a message is now displayed upon trying to load another file or exit the simulator.
- Clicking “Start” in the design tab now compiles and checks for errors before switching to the main tab.
- Log file name no longer resets to “antenna##.txt” at every run.
Update: October 31st 2013, 18:16
- Design tab no longer prints twice to console.
- In the design tab, you can now set a field for automatic logging or add any value or text to log files.
- Starting the simulation from the design tab now switches the controller setting to “Design”.
- Support for Arduino Uno implemented.
- Various fixes and improvements based on last year's student feedback.
Known Issues
- The simulator may become unresponsive after a long period of operation and multiple starts & stops. This can be fixed by restarting the application for now.
- The Windows forms text box used for the console is too slow. Printing lengthy text with short periods causes the simulator to slow down due to lagging screen redraws. The "Automatically clear after this many lines:" option works around this, but disabling that option may result in slow execution.