org.orekit.propagation.events
Interface EventDetector

All Superinterfaces:
java.io.Serializable
All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractDetector, AlignmentDetector, AltitudeDetector, ApsideDetector, CircularFieldOfViewDetector, DateDetector, DihedralFieldOfViewDetector, EclipseDetector, ElevationDetector, EventShifter, ImpulseManeuver, NodeDetector

public interface EventDetector
extends java.io.Serializable

This interface represents space-dynamics aware events detectors.

It mirrors the EventHandler interface from commons-math but provides a space-dynamics interface to the methods.

Events detectors are a useful solution to meet the requirements of propagators concerning discrete conditions. The state of each event detector is queried by the integrator at each step. When the sign of the underlying g switching function changes, the step is rejected and reduced, in order to make sure the sign changes occur only at steps boundaries.

When step ends exactly at a switching function sign change, the corresponding event is triggered, by calling the eventOccurred(SpacecraftState, boolean) method. The method can do whatever it needs with the event (logging it, performing some processing, ignore it ...). The return value of the method will be used by the propagator to stop or resume propagation, possibly changing the state vector.

Version:
$Revision: 3027 $ $Date: 2010-01-19 11:36:25 +0100 (mar. 19 janv. 2010) $
Author:
Luc Maisonobe, Véronique Pommier-Maurussane

Field Summary
static int CONTINUE
          Continue indicator.
static int RESET_DERIVATIVES
          Reset derivatives indicator.
static int RESET_STATE
          Reset state indicator.
static int STOP
          Stop indicator.
 
Method Summary
 int eventOccurred(SpacecraftState s, boolean increasing)
          Handle an event and choose what to do next.
 double g(SpacecraftState s)
          Compute the value of the switching function.
 double getMaxCheckInterval()
          Get maximal time interval between switching function checks.
 int getMaxIterationCount()
          Get maximal number of iterations in the event time search.
 double getThreshold()
          Get the convergence threshold in the event time search.
 SpacecraftState resetState(SpacecraftState oldState)
          Reset the state prior to continue propagation.
 

Field Detail

STOP

static final int STOP
Stop indicator.

This value should be used as the return value of the eventOccurred method when the propagation should be stopped after the event ending the current step.

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Constant Field Values

RESET_STATE

static final int RESET_STATE
Reset state indicator.

This value should be used as the return value of the eventOccurred method when the propagation should go on after the event ending the current step, with a new state (which will be retrieved thanks to the resetState method).

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Constant Field Values

RESET_DERIVATIVES

static final int RESET_DERIVATIVES
Reset derivatives indicator.

This value should be used as the return value of the eventOccurred method when the propagation should go on after the event ending the current step, with recomputed derivatives vector.

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Constant Field Values

CONTINUE

static final int CONTINUE
Continue indicator.

This value should be used as the return value of the eventOccurred method when the propagation should go on after the event ending the current step.

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Constant Field Values
Method Detail

g

double g(SpacecraftState s)
         throws OrekitException
Compute the value of the switching function. This function must be continuous (at least in its roots neighborhood), as the integrator will need to find its roots to locate the events.

Parameters:
s - the current state information: date, kinematics, attitude
Returns:
value of the switching function
Throws:
OrekitException - if some specific error occurs

eventOccurred

int eventOccurred(SpacecraftState s,
                  boolean increasing)
                  throws OrekitException
Handle an event and choose what to do next.

The scheduling between this method and the OrekitStepHandler method handleStep(interpolator, isLast) is to call this method first and handleStep afterwards. This scheduling allows the propagator to pass true as the isLast parameter to the step handler to make it aware the step will be the last one if this method returns STOP. As the interpolator may be used to navigate back throughout the last step (as OrekitStepNormalizer does for example), user code called by this method and user code called by step handlers may experience apparently out of order values of the independent time variable. As an example, if the same user object implements both this EventDetector interface and the OrekitFixedStepHandler interface, a forward integration may call its eventOccurred method with a state at 2000-01-01T00:00:10 first and call its handleStep method with a state at 2000-01-01T00:00:09 afterwards. Such out of order calls are limited to the size of the integration step for variable step handlers and to the size of the fixed step for fixed step handlers.

Parameters:
s - the current state information : date, kinematics, attitude
increasing - if true, the value of the switching function increases when times increases around event (note that increase is measured with respect to physical time, not with respect to propagation which may go backward in time)
Returns:
one of STOP, RESET_STATE, RESET_DERIVATIVES or CONTINUE
Throws:
OrekitException - if some specific error occurs

resetState

SpacecraftState resetState(SpacecraftState oldState)
                           throws OrekitException
Reset the state prior to continue propagation.

This method is called after the step handler has returned and before the next step is started, but only when eventOccurred(org.orekit.propagation.SpacecraftState, boolean) has itself returned the RESET_STATE indicator. It allows the user to reset the state for the next step, without perturbing the step handler of the finishing step. If the eventOccurred(org.orekit.propagation.SpacecraftState, boolean) never returns the RESET_STATE indicator, this function will never be called, and it is safe to simply return null.

Parameters:
oldState - old state
Returns:
new state
Throws:
OrekitException - if the state cannot be reseted

getThreshold

double getThreshold()
Get the convergence threshold in the event time search.

Returns:
convergence threshold (s)

getMaxCheckInterval

double getMaxCheckInterval()
Get maximal time interval between switching function checks.

Returns:
maximal time interval (s) between switching function checks

getMaxIterationCount

int getMaxIterationCount()
Get maximal number of iterations in the event time search.

Returns:
maximal number of iterations in the event time search


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