Paparazzi Center

The Paparazzi Center is a graphical user interface which contains a notebook of three main pages:

• A set of selection boxes to configure an aircraft with its flight plan and build the corresponding programs to be simulated and uploaded to the airborne device.
• A Control Panel to launch the agents of the system and handle collection of programs as configurable sessions
• A page where the GCS may be embedded.

A log console is also diplayed in the configuration and control panel pages.

Configuration

The left part of the configuration page is an editor for the [[Conf.xml] file. The right side buttons provide a replacement to the make commands.

The editor for the configuration files is taken from the environment variable EDITOR or defaults to gedit.

Important Note: A new aircraft configuration has to be saved before being built.

Control Panel

In the Control Page page, two menus provide:

• A set of predefined and user sessions (collections of programs);
• A set of single programs.

The launched programs can be stopped and restarted (Stop/Redo buttons). Options can also be edited (in the entry box). Automatic respawn is enabled by setting the check box (left side of the Stop/Redo button). The set of the current processes can be saved as a user session (actually in the conf/control_panel.xml configuration file) to be restarted later (from the Session menu).

The Paparazzi processes are chosen among (look also at the Overview of the system):

• GCS
• A server (logger and message dispatcher for GCS)
• Simulators (built with the sim target in the control panel)
• Modems drivers (link)
• A messages window (messages bus observer)
• The gaia agent (time, wind, ... simulator)
• A Real Time Plotter
• A Log Plotter
• A log replayer