Attendance

Light attendance due to midterms, but still vibing meeting!

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Announcements / Admin

• Anthony Luo design doc freeze discussion.

  • There are still sections that need to be filled in.

  • Midterms week will slow us down for next few weeks

  • Need flight tests to determine operational limits of drone

  • Anthony Luo to initiate RFC system

    • not much feedback from others

• Anthony Luo To announce importance of the design document phase 1 paper.

  • What does succeeding on it means for the team?

    • SDC street cred

• Daniel Puratich Recap flight test 2023-10-14: Pegasus Hover, ZP3.5 M1, & Pilot Trainning

  • Nathan Green wrong motor configuration, flipped Pegasus

  • ~100 dollar of damage

    • couple props

    • antenna on LTE module

    • no action items following this, have extra props

  • Daniel Puratich checklist updating

  • Anthony Luo wants the flight test debrief to contain more data analysis and breakdown of what happened

    • We want people to get reasonable data out of the flight

  • We don’t want to drag out the flight test debrief to take a long time to discuss specifics of logs, Alison Thompson Conall Kingshott .

    • putting in the data eventually is useful

    • We test a lot of things on one day bc that's when we have the time and people to fly, Alison Thompson

      • We shouldn’t run so much simultaneously Anthony Luo to avoid overloading

  • Flight test debrief / data analysis needs to happen eventually

    • Can be at end of flight test, can be at another time Megan Spee

  • Split debriefs and flight test into two meetings? Anthony Luo

  • R D what is problem with stacking flight tests?

    • Crunching a lot of responsibility on very few people. Leads to more mistakes.

    • Daniel Puratich in this case, people working on peggy and tubie were split so the task saturation diagnosis Anthony Luo may not be accurate

  • A flight test is a lot of effort, to test a lot of things, we can’t split it up into lots of days Alison Thompson

    • It’s a big endeavor to go to a flight test

    • would rather do a big one then a bunch of small ones

    • Not everyone has to attend every flight test Anthony Luo

      • We have limited people that can fly and people that can drive Alison Thompson

  • R D when we have many flight tests on a single day, there’s a concern that a single person is responsible for things on each of the tests. Can we just limit that? Clearly assign scope.

    • Anthony Luo would allow debriefs to be split up

  • Megan Spee same day flight tests is more convenient, much more time cost to split it. the worth of getting more attention may not be worth it.

  • Anthony Luo flight tests overall could be shorter overall if split up.

  • Alison Thompson Vehicles and Tubie flight same time bc the drivers and cars required.

    • Anthony Luo not every flight test requires drivers, really only Pegasus bc of size and stuff

    • Anthony Luo autonomous missions on houston are easy if people get trained. tubie is much easier to fly then Pegasus. can unblock teams by splitting tests.

  • Anthony Luo was not a fan of debrief and stacking and thinks it went poorly, revisit at end of meeting.

• Daniel Puratich Announce flight test 2023-10-21 Flight Test

• Daniel Puratich Do we want to run an AEAC sync next week? It’s the heart of reading week

  • midterms week next week

  • lotta people offsite

  • so we gonna run it

Action Items (we do these right now and assign immediately)

Updates / Blockers / Finished items

Airframe

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Payload

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Aerodynamics

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Sensors

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PDB

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Harnessing

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Gemini

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Farris Matar carried 😎, notes he left: Through hole components still need to be soldered on, we also didn’t get the SMD loop testpoints in the order so we’ll need to order those w the next Digikey order Quite a few bridges to clean up on some of the ICs ESP01F still needs to be ordered in the next aliexpress order and assembled. Some of the pads for it are bridged and will need to be fixed to prevent shorts One board is missing an 0603 green LED, 1 got lost while I was placing them Some of the pads for the TX modules may need to be touched up on 1 of the boards

Antenna Tracker

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Auto-landing

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Pathing

Testing goals for near future

Arch Doc