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Requested by:

Aidan Bowers (Deactivated)

Required Sub-teams

  •  Mech
  •  Electrical
  •  EFS
  •  CV
  •  Operation
  •  Sys-Int

Requested Date

Location and Time

WRESTRC, 12:00-6:00pm

Summary & Goals

  • Validate fixed wing flight control and stability

  • Validate basic RTL functionality.

  • Verify transition

  • Collect Preliminary data on battery life.

  • Houston setup validation and control validation

Approved?

Yes ✅

👥 Required Persons During Test

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Tests

Success Criteria

Requirements

Outcome

Fixed Wing Flight

Aircraft is able to fly in a fixed-wing configuration without issue

Cornflakes should be ready to fly, as outlined by all pre-flight checks

Quad-to-Fixed transition

Aircraft is able to successfully perform the transition from quad to fixed wing flight, and back.

Cornflakes should be ready to fly, as outlined by all pre-flight checks

Battery Life

Information on battery voltage/capacity is collected throughout the flight

Proper battery capacity recording and monitoring

Quad Yaw Authority

Aircraft is responsive to yaw input in quad mode

Minimum yaw rate of 90deg per second

Houston Setup Validation

Validate Houston has the correct setup after crashing from last flight test

Components on Houston are working and Houston is responsive to the control

⏲️ Testing Timeline

Date/Time

Action

(due)

Aircraft Assembly: Alison Thompson

  • Subframe assembly

  • Wing assembly

(due)

Aircraft Assembly: Alison Thompson

  • Control surface design and construction

  • Motor protection design and construction

  • Aircraft frame assembly

(due)

Electrical Repairs: Daniel Puratich

  • Replace/fix damaged PDB

  • Fix/Replace damaged ESC

(due)

Harnessing: Daniel Puratich

  • Finish wiring new aircraft

Pre-flight Preparation: Aidan Bowers (Deactivated) / Hardy Yu

  • Ensure Incident Procedures, driver lists, etc. are completed

  • Ensure all items in Week-Before and Day-Before checklist are complete

Pre-Flight Systems Review:

  • Review all systems, and complete checklists to ensure systems are functioning as expected

9:00am

Pre-Departure Preparation:

  • Complete all pre-departure checklist items

11:15am

Flight brief from flight test lead

  • Outline what is being tested, responsibilities of all participants, incident procedures, and general coordination.

11:30am

Loading onto the Car

Take your water bottle with you. Go washroom before we leave!

11:45pm

Drive to the test ground

12:00-3:00pm

Flight Testing

Test #1

Quad mode takeoff/landing w/ flat mounts

  • assert that system is stable & both pilots are comfortable with the controls.

Test #2

Quad mode YAW control w/flat mounts

  • Test to see how much yaw control we have, which is basically the drone correctly responds to our left/right instruction

  • Success if drone give correct respond and appropiate yaw throttle

  • The test is first done without wings then with wings

Test #3

Quad mode takeoff/landing w/angled mounts

  • similar test with angled mounts, this should give more throttle on yaw

Test #4

Quad mode yaw control w/angled mounts

  • first done without wings then with wings

Test #5

Buddy box

  • control handover in all altitude

  • both pilot have the control to the rc link

  • After one pilot delivers the control, there should one be one pilot has the control of the drone

Test #6

Battery VS Flight time measurement. Recharge batteries if needed

  • Measure the amount of the time the batteries were used in the previous tests and come out with an estimation of batteries life

  • we probably need to go back to bay in this process to recharge batteires for an hour since we don’t have spare ones🫠

Houston Test

While batteries are under charging, the group of ppl on wrest rc can conduct the test for Houston

Test #7

Transition & Fixed Wing Flight (brief, 1 circle)

  • Trasition will take place in a straight line

  • After the trasition is done, the drone should fly in fixed wing for one circle, the return to quad mode

  • during this process, making sure the drone maintain altitude and flight forward while avoid other people

  • TODO: the flight path needs to be determined

Test #8

Transition & Fixed Wing Flight second pilot

  • repeat everything with second pilot

Test #9

Fixed wing “waypoint” navigation

  • Setup a destination on mission planner and run the drone in autopilot

  • Wait is the fixed wing or quad? I suppose this should be quad.

  • drone maintain altitude all the time

  • TODO: the waypoint needs to be determined

Test #9#10

Quad Mode RTL

  • Quad mode to RTL. Start close and then move further away.

  • to see if it autoland

Test #10#11

Fix wing in a whole circle

  • Once again, we are looking for checking the drone responds correctly to our control in fix wing. Fly in a whole circle under fix wings will be tested

Test #11#12

Transition to fix wing then RTL

  • Fly the drone away-> transition to fix wings-> RTL

  • we expect the drone transition to quad and autoland

  • but this is risky and we don’t know what’s gonna happen. Also the batteries may not support us to do this test, so this might move to 18th flight test

3:30pm

Debrief

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