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  • Houston

    • Tracking Antenna

      • Will test pitch and yaw. Validated prior to 2024-11-16 test, but pushed back to this test

    • Autonomy Testing

      • Cluster Estimation

      • Image collection with manually set camera settings

  • Pegasus 2

Flight Cards

Flight Card 1

Tracking Antenna Test

Pilot: Evan Janakievski

GSO: Nathan Green

Note

What is being tested? To be filled out by flight card requesters Omer Sajid Jeremy Zheng

  • Connection between TA and Mission Planner (MavProxy MavLink Forwarding)

  • Setup OTA link on Houston with RFD

  • Fly in 180° arc around TA (only testing Yaw tracking capability)

  • Fly from TA Height to about 20 feet in the air (Pitch tracking capability)

  • Fly in 180° arc around TA while varying drone elevation level (Testing Pitch and Yaw tracking capability)

  • If needed, possible Procedure is listed below (same as a past flight test)

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TRACKING ANTENNA TEST PROCEDURE (HOUSTON)

Procedure

Goals / Objectives

Knockoff criteria

  1. Setup

LINK TO DOCUMENTATION FOR SETUP

  1. Hover altitude 5m in loiter.

  • Verify antenna is able to point towards the drone

< list of reasons why you would want to stop the test >

  1. Translation motion:

Move in periodic squares moving away from the tracking antenna.

  • Ensure that the tracking antenna remains pointed at the drone

  • tracking antenna loses track on the drone

    • Hover in place and wait.

Flight Card 2

Pegasus 2 New Landing Gear Validation

Pilot:

GSO:

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What is being tested? To be filled out by flight card requesters

Info

Hardware to be installed, items to bring, batteries, etc (change status to success when installed or plan for installing at flight test is done)

  • Batteries: 4 or 8 6s batteries

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2

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Procedure

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Goals / Objectives

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Knockoff criteria

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  1. Setup

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Flight Card 3

IR camera image collection

Pilot: Evan Janakievski

GSO: Nathan Green

Note

What is being tested?

  • IR camera different exposure settings

Info

Hardware to be installed, items to bring, batteries, etc (change status to success when installed or plan for installing at flight test is done)

  • Houston

  • 2 3S batteries

  • IR camera (picamera)

  • RPI

  • IR emitter

    • 1 old 3S battery

IR CAMERA TEST PROCEDURE (HOUSTON)

Procedure

Goals / Objectives

Knockoff criteria

  1. Setup IR camera image collection script

Get the script to run (either manually or auto start on bootup)

Script is not running

  1. Fly at 20m altitude and test with the following camera settings:

    1. ISO 1600…

    2. ISO 800…

Collect images of different camera exposure settings

Flight Card

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Cluster estimation test

Pilot: Evan Janakievski

GSO: Nathan Green

Note

What is being tested?

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CLUSTER ESTIMATION TEST PROCEDURE (HOUSTON)

Procedure

Goals / Objectives

Knockoff criteria

  1. Setup

Get the script to run (either manually or auto start on pootupbootup)

Script is not running

  1. Place and measure landing pad distance from drone power-on location

Know true value of landing pad location and home location

  1. Hover above the landing pad and fly a few passes at 5, 10, 20m altitude

Flight Card 4

Cluster estimation test

Pilot: Evan Janakievski

GSO: Nathan Green

Note

What is being tested?

Info

Hardware to be installed, items to bring, batteries, etc (change status to success when installed or plan for installing at flight test is done)

  • 4 6s batteries

PILOT TRAINING (PEGGY 2)

Procedure

Goals / Objectives

Knockoff criteria

  1. Setup

Timeline ~ Pending

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Gain flight hours on Peggy 2 airframe

Unstable tune

  1. Take off and fly at different altitudes

Get comfortable flying Pegasus

Damaged mechanically

  1. Land

Understand setup procedures

Timeline

  • Nov 22

    • Charge 3s batteries

    • Charge controller batteries

  • Nov 23

    • 9:00 charge 6s batteries

    • 10:00 leave for WRESTRC

    • 10:20 arrive

    • 10:30 Flight Card 2 Flight 1 → ISO 1600

    • 10:45 Flight Card 2 Flight 2 → ISO 800

      • Following this flight, CV camera installed for IR camera

    • 11:00 Flight Card 4 Flight 1 → Pilot training

    • 11:30 Flight Card 3 Flight 1 → Cluster Estimation 5 m

    • 11:40 Flight Card 3 Flight 2 → Cluster Estimation 10m

    • 11:50 Flight Card 3 Flight 3 → Cluster Estimation 20 m

    • 12:10 Flight Card 1 Flight 1 → Tracking Antenna

    • 12:30 Pack up and leave

    • 1:00 arrive at bay, unpack, and debrief

Attendees

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Recap

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Flight Card 2

Recap

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Flight Card 3

Recap

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