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Meeting overview

Meeting to discuss state of groundstation Command & Control Equipment:

  • Tracking antenna

  • ELRS Gemini

  • Groundstation Software

  • Airside software

Table of Contents

🫂 Attendance


🗒️ The Weekly Recap


✈️ Flight Tests:

📦 New arrivals

📈 Cool things we did

  • ELRS Airport working (very slow though)

✅ Open action items


📝 Meeting minutes


Tracking Antenna 🗼

Tracking Antenna Tower

Status
colourGreen
titleMechanical

Yaw only looking good.

  • Will look @ 3s

  • Going to add some angle on yaw only

    • on pitch version, going to add default is level and ability to pitch up and down.

  • Building the antenna starting this week.

  • Using the tripod.

  • No counterbalance for the yagis (fine for yaw only).

  • HS 785 HQ, 8 rotation servo

    • gearbox is 1:7

    • will need calibration for this later (in software)

Tracking Antenna Nucleo Shield

Status
colourYellow
titleELECTRICAL

  • component selection undergoing

  • we have a new member joining this project Rukshi Thiyagayogan

    Integration almost complete. BMX tested, NEOM8 not tested.

    PID not started….
    • Started working on drawing the schematic of the tracking antenna pcb

    • Yuchen Lin Found out the prototype board he soldered wasn’t really working

    • We are currently making a new one with better planning, more careful soldering, and easier to use

    Tracking Antenna Software

    Status
    colourRed
    titleEmbedded Flight Software

    • integration code finished

    • have a blocker: not finding neo m8 but solved today

    • will warp up the integration test

    • continue on pid motor code

    • WILL WRITE UNIT TESTS

    ELRS 📶

    Gemini 📻

    Status
    colourYellow
    titleELECTRICAL

    • Slightly behind schedule

    • Electrical schematic in its last stages

      • missing some connector clarifications

        • Planning to ask in ELRS discord

      • Research new component to replace PCB antennas

      • Will require a schematic review

        • Potentially other EE members or leads

        • Also planning to review in ELRS discord

    • PCB design phase hoping to start this week

    • Will ideally be able to give some dimensions and sync with mechanical soon for JR module mechanical design

    • Gemini communicates over UART.

    • Antennas for ESP are mostly meant to flash firmware over wifi / OTA updates

    • Going to do RS422 now, looking for Wireless in the future.

      • if doing wireless - it can be UART.

        • Gemini communication needs BOOT0 connection (to update over wifi).

          • may need to use push-button // jumper

        • Normal communication just uses UART.

    • Just started PCB phase

    • Image RemovedImage Added

      Board will likely not be ordered before the end of the term

      • Will need to be tested early next term

    Airport 🛫

    Status
    colourRed
    titleEMBEDDED FLIGHT SOFTWARE

    < updates here >

    • Hardy looking to create wireless function for RS422, will contact Farris to get more info.

    Ground Station Software

    Status
    colourPurple
    titleAUTONOMY

    • Data Telemetry working & tested.

    • Working on GUI.

    IMACS

    • working on testing stuff through TCP.

    • Once serial port working, and GUI done, need to test on drone // ardupilot.

      • Minipix possible?

    QR Code detection

    • Focus rn

    MAVLink commands

    • Focus rn

    Airside Command & Control

    LTE Communication 📡

    Status
    colourBlue
    titleintegration

    < probably not much to update but updates here if there are any >

    Jetson Autonomy 📷

    Status
    colourPurple
    titleAutonomy

    • All tasks given out, architecture created and finalized.

    • all independent tasks completed by saturday.

    • week after is integration

    • flight test on saturday post next (22nd).

    GeoLocation

    • Needs to be refactored.

    • Merge-odometry-and-detections module

    Dronekit on Jetson

    • Dronekit on jetson PR just reviewed.

      • trying to keep in common repository (ground and airside). Reduces boilerplate.

    Control Passthrough 🎛️

    Status
    colourRed
    titleEmbedded Flight Software

    MAVLink

    • Updates here

    SBUS

    • Updates here

    CRSF?

    • Updates here