Competition Year | 2022-2023 Aerial Evolution of Canada Student Competition | ||||||
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Team | Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group | ||||||
Architect(s) | Anthony Luo | ||||||
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Last date updated | by Anthony Luo | ||||||
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[Competition Requirements] [CR]Competition Requirements
📐 Architecture
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The architecture of a drone can be found in the [Competition Design Outline]. <# iterations> iterations of the drone will be created, at <#milestones>. <# final copies> of the drone will be created in “competition spec”. Our system will meet the requirements in [Competition Requirements].
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The plane will be comprised of 5 main sections: the Passenger Compartment, wings, tail, battery box, and avionics compartment. See the scuffed diagram below for more information. The batterybox + passenger compartment will be part of the main fuselage, while the nose & tail will house more electronics.
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Batteries & Power Distribution
Batteries and Power Distribution shall be mounted at the back in front of the fuselage so that the heaviest components are at the back of the fuselage. This should allow the fuselage to be moved as far up as possible, giving the rear prop as much unrestricted airflow as possible while maintaining a drone COM that is close to the geometric center of the four lift motorspassenger compartment, under the same access lid as the pixhawk & various other PDB/Sensors. This should make wiring easy, and make weather proofing easy. The batteries shall be placed as far forward in the fuselage as possible to help balance the overall COM of the drone.
The battery box should be easily accessible from the top so that battery swaps may be easily accomplished during task #2, and should be weatherproof and house the PDB, Batteries, and necessary power connectors in an manner that makes upkeep & plugging/unplugging/probing connectors easily.
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The avionics compartment should allow for airflow and cooling even in adverse weather, with an option to block the opening in the event of incredibly that can be shut (either manually or automatically) in inclement weather.
Sensors will not be placed inside the avionics compartment due to electrical noise.
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Communication between all devices will follow a standardized message format over UART (or serial) with :
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a custom payload (so that is, retaining the regular UART start, parity, stop bits). See [UART] for more information.
2 byte header Aidan Bowers (Deactivated) Former user (Deleted) I don’t know what I’m doing with this
1 byte denoting type of message
2 byte length ?4 bit message type
2 bit destination
8 bit message length
[length] byte message data
2 byte footer
1 byte crc
1 byte stop bits?
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How to use RFD900X: https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/l/cp/LPn8hwCv
ZeroPilot Software ZeroPilot 3.0 Architecture
[UART] UART
[Competition Design Outline] Competition Design Outline
[Competition Requirements] Competition Requirements
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