AmicalSat ShockBurst image packets processing

This notebook shows how to process ShockBurst S-band image packets to reassemble the image file


In [1]:
%matplotlib inline
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from collections import Counter

The data shockburst.u8 contains ShockBurst frames without the 0xE7E7E7E7E7 address header (including frame counter, image payload and CRC). It has been obtained with nrf24.grc.


In [2]:
data = np.fromfile('/home/daniel/debian_testing_chroot/tmp/shockburst.u8', dtype = 'uint8').reshape((-1,34))

The CRC used in ShockBurst frames CRC16_CCITT_FALSE from this online calculator. Since the 0xE7E7E7E7E7 address is included in the CRC calculation but is missing in our data, we take this into account by modifying the initial XOR value.


In [3]:
crc_table = [
    0x0000, 0x1021, 0x2042, 0x3063, 0x4084, 0x50a5, 0x60c6, 0x70e7,
    0x8108, 0x9129, 0xa14a, 0xb16b, 0xc18c, 0xd1ad, 0xe1ce, 0xf1ef,
    0x1231, 0x0210, 0x3273, 0x2252, 0x52b5, 0x4294, 0x72f7, 0x62d6,
    0x9339, 0x8318, 0xb37b, 0xa35a, 0xd3bd, 0xc39c, 0xf3ff, 0xe3de,
    0x2462, 0x3443, 0x0420, 0x1401, 0x64e6, 0x74c7, 0x44a4, 0x5485,
    0xa56a, 0xb54b, 0x8528, 0x9509, 0xe5ee, 0xf5cf, 0xc5ac, 0xd58d,
    0x3653, 0x2672, 0x1611, 0x0630, 0x76d7, 0x66f6, 0x5695, 0x46b4,
    0xb75b, 0xa77a, 0x9719, 0x8738, 0xf7df, 0xe7fe, 0xd79d, 0xc7bc,
    0x48c4, 0x58e5, 0x6886, 0x78a7, 0x0840, 0x1861, 0x2802, 0x3823,
    0xc9cc, 0xd9ed, 0xe98e, 0xf9af, 0x8948, 0x9969, 0xa90a, 0xb92b,
    0x5af5, 0x4ad4, 0x7ab7, 0x6a96, 0x1a71, 0x0a50, 0x3a33, 0x2a12,
    0xdbfd, 0xcbdc, 0xfbbf, 0xeb9e, 0x9b79, 0x8b58, 0xbb3b, 0xab1a,
    0x6ca6, 0x7c87, 0x4ce4, 0x5cc5, 0x2c22, 0x3c03, 0x0c60, 0x1c41,
    0xedae, 0xfd8f, 0xcdec, 0xddcd, 0xad2a, 0xbd0b, 0x8d68, 0x9d49,
    0x7e97, 0x6eb6, 0x5ed5, 0x4ef4, 0x3e13, 0x2e32, 0x1e51, 0x0e70,
    0xff9f, 0xefbe, 0xdfdd, 0xcffc, 0xbf1b, 0xaf3a, 0x9f59, 0x8f78,
    0x9188, 0x81a9, 0xb1ca, 0xa1eb, 0xd10c, 0xc12d, 0xf14e, 0xe16f,
    0x1080, 0x00a1, 0x30c2, 0x20e3, 0x5004, 0x4025, 0x7046, 0x6067,
    0x83b9, 0x9398, 0xa3fb, 0xb3da, 0xc33d, 0xd31c, 0xe37f, 0xf35e,
    0x02b1, 0x1290, 0x22f3, 0x32d2, 0x4235, 0x5214, 0x6277, 0x7256,
    0xb5ea, 0xa5cb, 0x95a8, 0x8589, 0xf56e, 0xe54f, 0xd52c, 0xc50d,
    0x34e2, 0x24c3, 0x14a0, 0x0481, 0x7466, 0x6447, 0x5424, 0x4405,
    0xa7db, 0xb7fa, 0x8799, 0x97b8, 0xe75f, 0xf77e, 0xc71d, 0xd73c,
    0x26d3, 0x36f2, 0x0691, 0x16b0, 0x6657, 0x7676, 0x4615, 0x5634,
    0xd94c, 0xc96d, 0xf90e, 0xe92f, 0x99c8, 0x89e9, 0xb98a, 0xa9ab,
    0x5844, 0x4865, 0x7806, 0x6827, 0x18c0, 0x08e1, 0x3882, 0x28a3,
    0xcb7d, 0xdb5c, 0xeb3f, 0xfb1e, 0x8bf9, 0x9bd8, 0xabbb, 0xbb9a,
    0x4a75, 0x5a54, 0x6a37, 0x7a16, 0x0af1, 0x1ad0, 0x2ab3, 0x3a92,
    0xfd2e, 0xed0f, 0xdd6c, 0xcd4d, 0xbdaa, 0xad8b, 0x9de8, 0x8dc9,
    0x7c26, 0x6c07, 0x5c64, 0x4c45, 0x3ca2, 0x2c83, 0x1ce0, 0x0cc1,
    0xef1f, 0xff3e, 0xcf5d, 0xdf7c, 0xaf9b, 0xbfba, 0x8fd9, 0x9ff8,
    0x6e17, 0x7e36, 0x4e55, 0x5e74, 0x2e93, 0x3eb2, 0x0ed1, 0x1ef0
]

def crc(frame):
    c = 0xB95E # CRC of initial E7E7E7E7E7 address field
    for b in frame:
        tbl_idx = ((c >> 8) ^ b) & 0xff
        c = (crc_table[tbl_idx] ^ (c << 8)) & 0xffff

    return c & 0xffff

In [4]:
crc_ok = np.array([crc(d) == 0 for d in data])
frame_count = data[crc_ok,:2].ravel().view('uint16')

In [10]:
frame_count_unique = np.unique(frame_count)

Number of skipped frames:


In [11]:
np.sum(np.diff(frame_count_unique)-1)


Out[11]:
5

In [15]:
np.where(np.diff(frame_count_unique)-1)


Out[15]:
(array([270, 284, 351]),)

Number of correct frames:


In [12]:
len(frame_count_unique)


Out[12]:
2555

In [13]:
plt.plot(np.diff(frame_count_unique)!=1)


Out[13]:
[<matplotlib.lines.Line2D at 0x7f0872e67400>]

Write frames to a file according to their frame number. We do a majority voting to select among different frames with the same frame number (there are corrupted frames with good CRC). The file has gaps with zeros where frames are missing.


In [17]:
frame_size = 30
with open('/tmp/file', 'wb') as f:
    for count in frame_count_unique:
        valid_frames = data[crc_ok][frame_count == count]
        counter = Counter([bytes(frame[2:]) for frame in valid_frames])
        f.seek(count * frame_size)
        f.write(counter.most_common()[0][0])