Editor: Thermal Sensing with an Infra-Red Camera
Description
This guide will walk through using the Infra-Red (IR) payload camera with the thermal system of Nominal Editor. Before starting this guide, it is recommended that users are familiar with the Editor: Analysis of Thermal Profiles guide. The Camera Payloads Nominal Editor demo is referenced in this guide and is provided as an example of thermal imaging within Nominal Editor.
Configuring Cameras
The referenced demo has a single spacecraft with both an optical and IR camera payload and is tasked with imaging the Earth. The first step to using the IR camera payload is to ensure that the objects to be imaged have been configured to use the thermal system, covered in the “Editor: Analysis of Thermal Profiles” guide. Once the target simulation objects have been configured to have a temperature, the next step is configuring the camera payloads.
In the referenced demo, the optical and IR camera payloads use their default configurations but are configured to export as JPEG and PNG, respectively. For the demo, the IR camera has been positioned to image the spacecraft in a 3rd-person view by updating its position and rotation.
Viewing Thermal
This perspective allows the IR camera payload to capture the changing temperatures of the spacecraft components and is similar to placing IR engineering cameras on spacecraft to monitor spacecraft health and assist diagnostic efforts. The Set Material function is used to select the different colour spectrums used to communicate the temperatures of the components.
