Flight Profile¶
The purpose of this notebook is to create a flight profile for the bot-sat. We do this by combing data from the sensors and the video to create a best estimate of the flight profile. The flight has four distinct phases:
- Prior to launch, the bot-sat is on the ground and the sensors are reading the environment.
- The bot-sat is launched and ejecting water.
- The water is exhausted and the bot-sat is ballistically falling.
- The bot-sat crashes into the ground. We temporarily lose contact with the bot-sat.
Phase 1 is pretty trivial, so we don't need to worry about it.
Phase 2 is where we have data from both video and sensors, however, the sensor data is out-of-bounds. The video gives us reasonable estimates of the bot-sat's accelleration, and combined with the sensor data, particularly from phase 3, we can create a reasonable estimate of the bot-sat's flight profile.
Phase 3 we assume is completely ballistic, so we can use the sensor data to estimate the bot-sat's flight profile.