Iterative Design
Hopper
Description | Design Cycles
Key Features
- Central queue for distributed, collaborative activity planning
- Supports work-flow management, conflict prevention/resolution
- Scientists “check-out” assigned activities to their Editor to do detailed parameter specification
- “Quick Edit” button immediately checks out and opens an activity for editing
- Persistent planning
- Unexecuted activities persist in the Hopper until they “expire” due to certain constraints (i.e. rover moves away from target)
- Activities that are designated as repeating or systematic persist in the Hopper and are automatically re-submitted to the planner
- Long-range planning
- Hopper provides look-ahead
- Scientists can begin planning activities days in advance
- Intelligent ordering
- Items in Hopper are sequenced according to ordering constraints
- Visual constraint representation
- Visualizations may be toggled on/off to control clutter
- Visualizations may be toggled on/off to control clutter
