RATS-Software

This is the code for receiving rocket telemetry, controlling the motor and servo that aim the antenna, and forwarding data along to the GUI laptop via serial.

Getting Started

Required Dependencies

• cmake
• gcc-arm-embedded (for macOS)
• gcc-arm-none-eabi (for Linux)

Optional Dependencies

• doxygen: For documentation generation
• clang-format: For formatting code

These dependencies can be install via Homebrew on macOS or apt on WSL.

Setup

1. Install the required dependencies
2. Run git submodule update --init from within lib/
3. Run git submodule update --init from within lib/pico-sdk/
4. Run git submodule update --init from within lib/pico-servo/

Building:

Use CMake to build by running cmake .. && make from the RATS-Software/build directory. You can make this directory by running mkdir build if needed.

There are two flags to be aware of: DEBUG and MOVER. DEBUG prints verbose information such as the radio transmission metadata and the calculated relative position of the rocket. MOVER actuates the servo and stepper to aim the antenna at the calculated position. The normal cmake commands builds four targets, one for each permutation of these flags:

1. rats
2. rats-debug
3. rats-move
4. rats-move-debug

Where each target

Board Manager:

pico-sdk

Libraries:

1. RadioLib
2. Pico Stepper
3. Pico Servo

Pins:

Name	Number
NSS (CS)	5
DIO0 (Interrupt)	13
RESET	0
DIO1 (Interrupt)	14
RX (MISO)	4
TX (MOSI)	3
SCK	2
Servo	12
Stepper 1A	7
Stepper 1B	8
Stepper 2A	9
Stepper 2B	10