• Conall Kingshott Nathan Green

• Clamping blocks with side shroud mounting ability underway by Jonathan Di Giorgio

  • 3d printed, hopefully stop some vibe in the arm, some metal parts in there and clips to mount the battery shrouds

• Photo:

  

• No other major developments, frame seems to be holding together well from testing.

• Alison Thompson Evan Janakievski Georgia Vachon Westerlund

• Some awesome work is being done on the cabin, first rev is scheduled to be done by tomorrow’s mech meeting with goal to have it manufactured by end of December so we can flight test.

  • give time for people to see it and test!

• This revision WILL NOT have doors, windows, seats, cargo compartment, etc. It is purely to test geometry and flight characteristics while mech team works on integrating all of those things.

  • cosmetic features will come later

  • frame to mount things onto cabin!

• This also allows us to change geometry if needed.

• You can read about specific updates in mech docs

  • (will link later I’m writing this last minute)

• First version of battery shroud made by Andy Zhang.

  • Conall Kingshott screwed it up, but new version will be done soon, and we can start doing layups.

  • small mech detail but we get it fixed

• Important note that this will all add some amount of weight.

  • we can test flying with or without battery shrouds

• done this week and try to get it laid up this weekend or next weekend

• clips integrated into the design, plug and play

• Smile Khatri mech, attached mount!

• Attached the mount onto the arm last week. Currently, the lidar and OFS are attached and wired up thanks to Mena Azab .

  • The wires are zip-tied to the tube so they aren’t flying all over the place when the drone is flying

  • So far so good!

  • Some components can be hard to access the connectors? Shouldn't be a big deal

    • will be worked on from Smile to add in more spacing

• Some things to improve upon:

  • Slight wobbling because hole for the tube is a little big.

    • Just need to reduce the hole diameter and reprint to find the sweet spot.

    • To fix this week

  • Might be challenging to insert/remove the Clevis pin because it is directly under the tube (but it wasn’t too bad when I tried it). I can redesign if it’s too inconvenient but I don’t see it being a huge issue. If everyone thinks I should redesign so that the clevis pin should be perpendicular to the tube length-wise I could but there’s a high chance it adds more weight to the mount ;/

    • can be tricky to remove, but may be fine

  • Need to add more space for the wires (it still fits but would be nicer to have more space) and the FPV camera since the plate is kind of close to the tube.

• There was a concern about the leg appearing in the CV camera’s field of view (which would affect object detection stuff) but I tested this with the autonomy leads and the legs don’t appear in the CV camera (LET’S GOOOO). But not sure if the leg will appear in the FPV camera (also which subteam should I inquire about stuff relating to the FPV cam?)

  • so far so good (from a math perspective from autonomy) will be tested

  • Was tested with the camera and it looks good!

  • Center of mass depends heavily on battery decisions!

If anyone has suggestions on how I can improve the mount please lmk, would love to hear your thoughts!

• Nathan Green Georgia Vachon Westerlund Megan Spee

• Tom Chiu To add updates!

• Need to update with monster mount

• Flow sensor on CAN1. Lidar on i2c. esc on telem3

• Still unassigned due to no free members. However two new members have completed the Bootcamp. We should be able to delegate during this week’s EE meeting.

• Neel Patel Parker Lawrence-Valeriani Please write update!

  

  Neel:

• General layout idea revised

  • Navigation light static red on left, green on right

  • Beacon lights, red strobing all 4 corners for 360 visibility

  • Anti-collision lights, white strobing lights all 4 corners for 360 visibility

  • will need to discuss with mechanical where they could be placed near the motors

  • Possibly in a position so wires can go through the arms

  • any concerns with soldering directly to LEDs

• Power architecture

  • Spec LED’s that take 12V and total less than 2 amps

    • Possibly use the PDB 12V which can supply 3A

      • currently only see the VTX which draws 250 mA

    • Could also use another BEC is required which can supply upto 12V, 5A

• LED Spec questions

  • what distance of visibility do we need day/night, does this need to be researched?

  • What waterproof rating is required (if required)

Parker:

• Utilizing a 555 timer to achieve strobing

  • Used in its astable configuration so it’s functioning like an oscillator

  • Duration of ON vs. OFF time is easily chosen by selecting resistor values (ON time must be less than off).

• Questions

  • How long do the ON and OFF states need to be? (set by a potentiometer possibly)

• Farris Matar

• Ready for firmware for three assembled boards

• Could order a final optional component, waiting for an ali express order to tag along on to avoid shipping fees, low priority

• Derek Tang Please write updates!

• Paused.

• Nolan Haines Hardy Yu Please write updates!

• Michael Botros starting on project

• need to start talking about layout

• connector for cell sense leads

• Michael made progress on the schematic

• Decided to use VN300 for tracking antenna because experience some difficulty using neo m8 to get gps data at cloudy condition

• mavlink development in progress

• Mihir Gupta Tong Zhang

• Arunav Munjal

• Daniel Puratich Hardy Yu

• Training flight for Hardy Yu and Yuchen Lin for Houston auto-tune

• Pegasus auto-tune and endurance on four vs six batteries

• Does autonomy wanna run more data collection on Houston?

• Anthony Luo doing presentations to impart knowledge!

• Please start on the quizzes and then ask for stick time so we can get you up to speed!

• Please come to flight tests to learn how things are goin!

• Hardy Yu and Yuchen Lin are only ones so far (and they’re doin great!!! )

• Anthony Luo Running the system!

• No RFCs yet! Ask questions when ready to add to arch doc.