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Introduction
Announcement of /wiki/spaces/Meetings/pages/2851930130 .
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Water controller
POR assembly this weekend/ as soon as boards come in
no firmware required
need more info on assembly for rev 2 of this board
does this also need to be done asap? should the bringup of this board next term be very high priority?
Water controller Rev 2
Making a rev 2 to add extra output if we need to use solenoid
Targeting design done end of week - discuss purpose of this?
does this also need to be assembled asap? should the bringup of this board next term be very high priority?
LED REV 4
POR early next term
do we have a deadline for bringup for this? if not, when?
Tracking antenna controller rev2
POR assembly early next term
Unified VTX
POR sometime next term
components ordered
Tom Chiu will be onsite to drive this
is this still viable for comp 2025?
Single servo driver - handed off for firmware
Pi interface rev c
halfway through routing
on track - end of term
SIM card holder out of stock - looking into alternatives
Discuss comp priority?
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Water Controller Rev 1 - assembly this term
Programming Adapter for EFS - to be assembled in parallel with Water Controller
LED controller rev 4 - assembly this next term likely pushed
Tracking Antenna Rev 2
Unified VTX
Water Controller Rev 2
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harness for RPi has been completed and handed off to autonomy for further testing
details: copied from Jerry’s discord message:
the raspberry pie system is ready for ground test. There are 3 cables to the RPi Rev B PCB, the UART kill switch cable is plugged in but the other two cables were not plugged in. xt30 power cable is straightforward, just connect the female connector to the male connector on the pcb. For the telemetry cable, unplug cable in the pixhawk telem3 port rn and plug the one coming from rpi in Uart killswitch cable is connected to pixhawk io pwm port 8. I think I told you yesterday, but I didn't include any details so here you go
EFS
Tracking Antenna
Yaw and Pitch tracking are both working
Currently working when TA is manually placed to face north (Yaw 0 degrees is north)
Otherwise, there is a calibration issue, will be looked over today
Ready for flight test on Nov 23rd
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Really inconsistent, not ready for this weekends flight test. Will be working on it this Sunday.
CAN Servo Driver
Hardy Yu tried to push harder on this project and we have a member who is able to work on it recently
The goal is to finish the firmware entirely by the end of the week
If the firmware is not finished by the end, Hardy will take over and finish it
CAN LED
Same as last week
We talked in the EFS meeting this week, the PM said they aim to get the CAN interface done by the end of the term
The design of using the center LED to control the surrounding LED will happen next term
Mech
Payloads on track - waiting for filament
angled landing gear coming to a Peggy near you on Saturday
tracking antenna case to get final review and printed
changes to be made
Autonomy
IR camera different settings tested on ground, IR beacon is still pretty bright (min exposure time + max ISO) OneDrive
Cluster estimation integrated and tested
MAVlink communication in development
IR camera integration is almost complete, just testing remains
Will push more for bright spot detection once we lock in camera settings, although we have preliminary algorithms ready (not integrated)
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Settings were found at Wednesday’s worksession
Used
ExposureTime:36
,AnalogueGain:16
,Brightness:0
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Thursday’s worksessionwork
session, not enough time to properly test, team members needed help with their tasks
Set to take pictures at different
ExposureTime
values, need to see which value makes the most sense to use
Will test a bit more on Friday, hopefully there is some sun to test in, otherwise will test in cloudy weather and see how it turns out.
Flight Tests
2024-11-23 → 2024-11-23 Pegasus Flight Test
Autonomy data collection
IR and CV again, collection went well last weekend
This test will change parameters for the IR cam to try to get better images
Cluster estimation for geolocation
Tracking antenna testPegasus pilot training
Leave at 9:30 AM
2024-11-30 → 2024-11-30 Pegasus 2 Landing Gear Flight Test
Pegasus 2 New Landing Gear Test
Tracking Antenna → will check status
Houston data collection for autonomy
Asana
Check and update timeline