Second Look

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With our second activity and corresponding resources built, let’s compile the model again and upload it into Aerie (if you forget how to do this, refer to the Model Test Drive Page for simple instructions and references). Build a new plan off of the model you just uploaded, name your plan Mission Plan 2, and give it a duration of 1 day. When you open this plan, you will see your two activity types appear in the left panel, which you can drag and drop onto the plan. Add two change_mag_mode activities and change the parameter of the first one to HIGH_RATE. Add a collect_data activity in between the two change_mag_mode activities and then simulate.

You should now see our three resources populate with values in the timeline below. You’ll notice that now the recording_rate resource starts at zero until the mag_data_mode changes to HIGH_RATE, which pops up the rate to 5 Mbps. Then, the collect_data activity increases the rate by another 10 to 15 Mbps, but immediately decreases after the end of the activity. Finally, the mag_data_mode changes to LOW_RATE, which takes the rate down to 0.5 Mbps until the end of the plan.

At this point, you can take the opportunity to play around with Aerie’s Timeline Editing capability to change the colors of activities or lines or put multiple resources onto one row. Try putting the mag_data_mode and mag_data_rate on the same row so you can easily see how the mode changes align with the rate changes and change the color of mag_data_rate to red. With these changes you should get something similar to the screenshot below