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\uD83D\uDC65 Participants

📣 Announcements

  • We are confirmed to compete in AEAC Student Competition in Medicine Hat, Alberta in May 2025!

  • Obstacle avoidance flight test on 9-28

    • Did not run: the buck converter which converts the battery’s 12V to 5V for the pi broke

      • Need to ground test the whole system earlier before flight test day

    • Instead, collected some LiDAR data of particular scenes → Andrew Shum Vyomm Khanna

    • Also started raining, pegasus tuning done halfway, needs more testing

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  • Flight tests are a great experience and learning , fun, and are great to learn how things work!! We would like more autonomy members to join in on testing in the Bay and at flight tests! (Plus there’s usually costco pizza (wink))

    • The bay is open for everyone if you have done the required training (and bootcamp?), so please feel free to come into the bay whenever.

  • Will run autonomy system on Houston

    • https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1289257239957340221

    • Running geolocation: seems that bugs are mostly fixed ← explain geolocation and our current airside system?

      • Ground test result Ashish Agrahari - successful. See Autonomy/Geolocation_GroundTest_Oct4_2024 folder in onedrive

      • Test detect landing pads for now

      • Test between both CV and ML model for detection (see if they both work) - successful see onedrive folder.

      • Also, new trained ML model works much better

    • Fly in a circle? Jane Zeng ← explain Ardupilot (drone) ↔︎ mavlink ↔︎ MissionPlanner (ground)

  • May be moved to next week depending on availability

    • Fly cluster estimation with geolocation.

    • Switch waypoints mid-flight, pathing to switch modes (circle mode to auto for switching between flying a ring and flying to the next ring)

  • Competition Task 1 flight test on

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Project

PM

Notes

Pathing

Jane Zeng

Airside

Ashish Agrahari

ML

Vibhinn Gautam

IMACS

Balaji Leninrajan

  • Sargun Singh Bhatti Create widget to execute scripts

    • In progress, PR likely by next weekthis weekend

  • Andrew Wan Create button for RTL

    • Command constructor and tests done

    • Work on widget started

    • Basically ready for PR

  • Tochi Okoro Create controller for creating and configuring SITL

    • In progress

  • Daniel Wang Create navbar

    • In progress

  • Alex Liu Create widget to display camera feed from drone

    • In progress

  • Akshay Satish Create widget to add and queue waypoints

    • In progress

  • Lucas Kim Implement UI to change connection port and protocol

    • PR soon

  • William Zeng Research Flame for creating a artificial horizon widget

    • Some experimenting done, waiting for initial report

Obstacle Avoidance

Vyomm Khanna

  • Flight testing this weekend to collect data.

  • Researching path deflection algorithms - decided on Vector Field Histogram for obstacle avoidance.

  • Started algorithm implementation, can visualise polar field histogram from LiDAR readings.

  • Getting up to speed on DroneKit and current navigation architecture to work on adding waypoints to drone in-flight.

IR Camera + detection

Vibhinn Gautam

No response for IR camera just yet

Maybe look into buying one separately from sponsor?

  • Email received from Dan (Teledyne)

    • We will continue looking for a separate camera as the expected meeting date is too late (November). Some IR cameras have been suggested; we seek to select one by Tuesday Oct 8.

  • Need to start developing soon (start with detection of any color)

  • Other shipments are on the way, no clue where.

✅ Action items

From last week:

  •  Herman Gahra Re-review
  •  Dylan Finlay Create PR
    •  Task for changing this CV method to detect any color rather than just blue
  •  Add shahvir to confluence and assign ROS
  •  Assign Alex Liu to Camera IMACS task

This week:

  •  Label IR filter

⤴ Decisions