Specifications

• Target 1: Stable flight in all directions

• Target 2: Fancy flight in all directions

• How are we localizing - how does PM know to tell us which way to go!?

  • do we operate under one local heading as 0 and PM handles the rest of the spinny localization?

  • local or global reference frame? → not high priority (but I think local is easier?)

Timeline

• development start by reading week.

• Wednesday reading week → discuss how to approach this in terms of implementation

• Manual controls with RAW PWM values can be done by E.O. reading week.

• Implementing fancier methods later.

Meetings

October 7, 2021

• Send E-mail to Stephen Smith Friday Oct 8th 2021 → end of day. (or early saturday).

  • come up with some ideas to send to him about controls

  • hopefully get guidance wrt our specific requirements → help us choose methods?!

• Sending info to the drone as a spline (especially for autonomous flight)

  • → see FRC 254 controls giving splines and not raw values (link to 254 presentation)

    • link to slideshow

  • can fall back to raw pwm % difference if necessary

• Focus on two aspects

  • teleop and autonomous. → both get pretty ok with vectors.

  • for autonomous → pm should give us a vector.

  • for tele-op, depending on how we handle it, calculate internally or in PM.

• PM → tell you where to go | AM → figure out how to get there without crashing

• Definitely can get manual control done by end of reading week with raw pwm values.

  • fancier flight will have to come later.

October, 2021:

• Start development by the end of reading week.

• Meet next Thursday 7:30.

  • Come with ideas. Be prepared to prepare documents.

  • Questions and critical areas to ask the experts.

• Reach out on friday.

• Take weekend to look over data

• Try to meet next tuesday.

• Aim for reading week start

• Try to make applicable for hexapoter. Worry about fancier architecturse later.