Test 1: Prove basic Flight performance

Procedure

Goals / Objectives

Knockoff Criteria

1. Battery plugged in

• Mission planner no pre-arm warning

2. Bring the drone to the flightline

• toggle safety switch

3. Enable logging

4. Take off the drone in Stablize

• verify drone flight performance

• Drone unstable

• unable to establish VLOS

• Timer threshold:

  • flight time exceeded 5 min.

  VBatt below safety threshold: 10V

  • QLAND immediately, disarm when landed.

  • Recover drone & gather state of batteries

  Lost link

  • Follow lost link procedures. Maintain vlos if possible.

  • Contact necessary local authorities.

5. Switch Flight mode to Alt Hold

• verify drone flight performance

• Drone unstable

• unable to establish VLOS

• Timer threshold:

  • flight time exceeded 5 min.

  VBatt below safety threshold: 10V

  • QLAND immediately, disarm when landed.

  • Recover drone & gather state of batteries

  Lost link

  • Follow lost link procedures. Maintain vlos if possible.

  • Contact necessary local authorities.

6. Switch Flight mode to Loiter

• verify drone flight performance

• Drone unstable

• unable to establish VLOS

• Timer threshold:

  • flight time exceeded 5 min.

  VBatt below safety threshold: 10V

  • QLAND immediately, disarm when landed.

  • Recover drone & gather state of batteries

  Lost link

  • Follow lost link procedures. Maintain vlos if possible.

  • Contact necessary local authorities.

8. circling

• verify drone Flight performance

• Drone unstable

• unable to establish VLOS

• Timer threshold:

  • flight time exceeded 5 min.

  VBatt below safety threshold: 10V

  • QLAND immediately, disarm when landed.

  • Recover drone & gather state of batteries

  Lost link

  • Follow lost link procedures. Maintain vlos if possible.

  • Contact necessary local authorities

9. transfer control to Smile Khatri Manasva Katyal for practice

• pilot training

• Drone unstable

• unable to establish VLOS

• Timer threshold:

  • flight time exceeded 5 min.

  VBatt below safety threshold: 10V

  • QLAND immediately, disarm when landed.

  • Recover drone & gather state of batteries

  Lost link

  • Follow lost link procedures. Maintain vlos if possible.

  • Contact necessary local authorities

10. land the drone

• disarm the drone, Toggle safety switch

11. drone props inspection

• ensure the locking nuts are working as expected

• Cancel FT is the Nuts Cannot lock the Props

Test 1: Test Basic Obstacle Avoidance

Procedure

Goals / Objectives

Knockoff Criteria

1. Set waypoints

• Create a simple path for the drone to follow.

2. Run main obstacle avoidance script

3. Set up the obstacle in course

4. Battery plugged in

• Mission planner no pre-arm warning

• make sure AUTO is in one of the flight mode

5. Bring the drone to the flightline

• toggle safety switch

6. Enable logging

7. Arm the drone and set mode to in AUTO

8. Let drone start flying through waypoints in AUTO

• Drone unstable

• unable to establish VLOS

• Timer threshold:

  • flight time exceeded 5 min.

  VBatt below safety threshold: 10V

  • QLAND immediately, disarm when landed.

  • Recover drone & gather state of batteries

  Lost link

  • Follow lost link procedures. Maintain vlos if possible.

  • Contact necessary local authorities.

9. Wait for drone to approach the obstacle

10. Ensure that drone stops and enters LOITER mode when detect object

• Ensure the drone stops ~10m away from obstacle.

• Ensure drone switches to LOITER mode upon detecting obstacle.

If the drone does not stop within 10m of the person and obstacle:

• The person holding the obstacle steps out of flight path immediately.

• Pilot manually intervenes and skips to Step 13 (landing and disarming drone).

11. Remove the obstacle from the flight path and ensure the drone reenters AUTO mode

• Ensure the drone resumes its mission.

• Ensure drone switches to AUTO mode upon obstacle removal.

If drone does not resume to landing waypoint

• Pilot manually takes over and proceeds to Step 13 (landing and disarming drone).

12. Drone hovers over the 2nd waypoint (the landing waypoint)

•  Ensure drone completes the mission.

13. Pilot manually intervenes and lands drone

14. Disarm the drone

• disarm the drone, Toggle safety switch

Test 1: Test Basic Obstacle AvoidanceGEOLocation

Procedure

Goals / Objectives

Knockoff Criteria

1. Place blue landing pad on ground

2. Set up waypoints

• Create path that flies over the landing pad

3. Run airside

• SSH into the raspberry pi to check logs

• Ensure no errors

•  System crashes

4. Battery plugged in

• Mission planner no pre-arm warning

• make sure AUTO is in one of the flight mode

5. Bring the drone to the flightline

• toggle safety switch

6. Enable logging

7. Arm the drone and set mode to AUTO

8. Let drone start flying through waypoints in AUTO

• Drone unstable

• unable to establish VLOS

• Timer threshold:

  • flight time exceeded 5 min.

  VBatt below safety threshold: 10V

  • QLAND immediately, disarm when landed.

  • Recover drone & gather state of batteries

  Lost link

  • Follow lost link procedures. Maintain vlos if possible.

  • Contact necessary local authorities.

9. Wait for drone to complete path and hover over the 2nd waypoint (the landing waypoint)

•  Ensure drone completes the mission.

10. Pilot manually intervenes and lands drone

11. Disarm the drone

• disarm the drone, Toggle safety switch

Test 1: Gemini Radio

Procedure

Goals / Objectives

Knockoff Criteria

1. Connect Gemini RF

Configure Radio Failsafe

• Confirm that Gemini is working

• Houston doesn’t crash if radio failsafe happens

2. Bring the drone to the flightline

• toggle safety switch

3. Enable Gemini Logging

• Starts to fetch that will later be used for Gemini performance evaluation

4. Take off the drone in Loiter with the receiver facing Gemini

• Testing the Gemini performance when no object between two radio modules

• Drone unstable

• Radio Link Lost

• Low Battery

5. Fly away and fly back

• Testing the Gemini performance as distance increase

• Drone unstable

• Radio Link Lost

• Low Battery

6. Yaw, and receiver facing away from Gemini.

Fly away and fly back

• Verify the performance as there is obstacles between radio modules

Drone unstable

• Radio Link Lost

• Low Battery

7. Land and repeat if necessary

• We want to reproduce the link status issue we had last time.

• Got desired data

• Houston unable to keep flying