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Requested By

Nathan Green Yuchen Lin Daniel Puratich

Goal Summary

Final test before competition.

Status?

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titleAPPROVED

Desired Airframe

Pegasus 1

Desired Date(s)

18th or 19th

🥅 Testplan - to be filled out by requesting team

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Create ONE table per test-item. Eg: “Landing pad images over asphalt”, “landing pad images over grass”, “landing pad images over grass, high” should all be unique tables.

Use each expand to capture one series of tests, eg “Landing pad detection” or “Auto-tuning”.

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titleCard 1: Template flight test series

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May 2024

🥅 Testplan

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titleCard 1: Task 1

Test 1: Task 1

Procedure

Goals / Objectives

Knockoff Criteria

  1. Turn on the drone and load the passenger

  • simulate with payload situation

  • Mechanical setup complete and tested(cabin off and payload in)

  1. Upload the mission 1 path

  • Make sure waypoint in mission planner

  • Waypoint flashing not successful

  • Wrong waypoint is being flashed onto the drone

  1. Battery plugged in

  • make sure all the control signal are updated and powered

  • VTX ready

  • No pre-arm warning

  • motor tested and props in right order

  • fail safe configured(battery with the correct operation, GSO failsafe 15 sec delay)

  • logging SD card installed

  1. Bring the drone to the flightline

  1. Conduct pre-takeoff checklist

  • sensor health

  • control link

  • vtx

  1. Enable logging

 

 

  1. Arm in auto

  1. Wait for the drone to complete 3 laps and land.

  • Make sure drone is following the flight path as expected

  • Check no LTE link lost during flight

  • Drone unstable

  • unable to establish VLOS

  • Timer threshold:

    • flight time exceeded 5 min.

    VBatt below safety threshold: 40V

    • 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.

  1. post landing checklist

  • disarm the drone, toggle safety switch before crew approach the drone, disconnect the battery

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titleCard 2: Task 2

Test 1: Task 1

Procedure

Goals / Objectives

Knockoff Criteria

  1. Turn on the drone and load the passenger

  • simulate with payload situation

  • Mechanical setup complete and tested(cabin off and payload in)

  1. Upload the mission 1 path

  • Make sure waypoint in mission planner

  • Waypoint flashing not successful

  • Wrong waypoint is being flashed onto the drone

  1. Battery plugged in

  • make sure all the control signal are updated and powered

  • VTX ready

  • No pre-arm warning

  • motor tested and props in right order

  • fail safe configured(battery with the correct operation, GSO failsafe 15 sec delay)

  • logging SD card installed

  1. Bring the drone to the flightline

  1. Conduct pre-takeoff checklist

  • sensor health

  • control link

  • vtx

  1. Enable logging

 

 

  1. Arm in auto

  1. Wait for the drone to hover at the final waypoint

  • Make sure drone is following the flight path as expected

  • Check no LTE link lost during flight

  • Daniel Puratich Call out last waypoint

  • Nathan Green Wear goggle

  • Drone unstable

  • unable to establish VLOS

  • Timer threshold:

    • flight time exceeded 5 min.

    VBatt below safety threshold: 40V

    • 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

  1. Wait for the one minute landing window

  • Just below 50% throttle to achieve smooth landing

  • Yuchen Lin start last min time count down

  • Yuchen Lin Callout last meter altitude

  • Yuchen Lin Callout 30 secs and 15 secs

  • Same as above

  1. post landing checklist

  • disarm the drone, toggle safety switch before crew approach the drone, disconnect the battery

Necessary Preparation

Explain what capacity you need, what needs to be mounted, etc.

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Name

Phone #

Sub-team

Role

 Smile Khatri

8076320853

Mech

  • Mech lead stuff

Note

This section and remaining to be filled out by FTC and Flightline Team

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Flightline Team

Date/Time

Action

Notes

Name

Phone #

Role

Reason

 Nathan Green

 

 

 

Yuchen Lin

Daniel Puratich

Pre-Flight Preparation

Checklists

Incident Procedures

⏲️ Flight Test Timeline

Amy Hu

Smile Khatri

Tong Zhang

Emma Chan

Hardy Yu

Pre-Flight Checklists

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titleWeek-Before checklist

  • Software configuration correct

  • Compare against latest baselines and verify no params changed, or changes approved by comp-ft-team

  • LTE tested

  • Autopilot Orientation checked

  • Motors tested

  • Prop direction check

  • Sensors outputs healthy & within range

  • Controller input mappings correct

  • Controller input choices correct for pilot preferences

  • Wireless trainer tested & working per pilot preferences.

Hardware (wiring)

  • Wires are not too tight or too loose (comfortable, not strained, not flapping around)

    • No cut/exposed wires

    • Shrouding is neat + presentable

    • Solder joints look good

      • no cracks

      • no corrossion

      • no exposed contacts (unless expected)

    • Specific requirement from Daniel Puratich

      • no exposed pad without solder on ESC caps

        • i did this on peggy 2

        • someone will need to do with peggy 1

      • ESCs all have a touch of hot glue to secure cap to board

    • Connectors fully plugged in

    • Connectors in good health

Hardware (airframe)

  • Bolts secure (nothing loose)

    • Carbon fiber not cracked

    • 3D prints not failing / crushed / cracked

    • No loose items

Hardware (groundstation)

  • ELRS Gemini tested & Working

    • Logging correct

    • Data looks correct

    • Control tower tested & working

  • Tracking antenna x2 (control + video) (mechanical)

    • Servos secure

    • Hardware (antennas) secure

    • No cracks/bends/chips in polycarb/aluminum

    • Gears / shafts look healthy

    • Grease if necessary

  • Tracking antenna x2 (control + video) (electrical)

    • Electrical components secure

    • Power delivery / signal wires secure, no cracks/corrosion/damage

  • Video System

    • goggles(?)

    • Monitors(?)

    • Video tower tested & working

  • Laptop w/mission planner configured correctly.

    • LTE Link tested working

Flightline Kit

  • Spare motors

  • Spare props

  • Spare tools

    • Metric allen keys

    • Socket set (question)

    • Pliers (flatnose + needle nose)

  • USB-C cable (short & long)

  • Soldering iron + heat shrink + spare cables

  • Power supplies for ground station computer

  • Ground station computer

  • Spare bolts

  • Radio Controllers

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titleDay-before checklist

  • Mission plan clear

  • flightline roles assigned

  • Communication hierarchy established

  • Incident procedures & roles in-place & briefed to all flightline team members

  • Timeline for day-of clear

  • Battery charging plan, equipment management plan clear.

  • Transportation clear

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titleDay-of checklist

  • Batteries in safety bag

  • Equipment

    • Zip tie

    • duck tape

    • label maker

    • Type c cable

    • ELRS Gemini

    • Saleae Logic Analyzer

    • charged WARG laptop

    • spare bag for small electronics

    • controller box

      • two controller

      • battery tester

    • VTX box

  • execute

Total 5 main system checked:

  • Power system(battery and connection)

  • Propulsion system(motor and propeller)

  • Controller system(Control links and ground station system)

  • Sensory system(sensors)

  • Video system (VTX)

  • Debrief

  • clean / store equipment if necessary

⏲️ Flight Test Timeline

note test 1 is competition task 1 and test 2 is competition task 2

Date/Time

Action

Notes

0X00lunch time ish

Briefing @ WARG Bay

 0X00

Arrival at Flight Test Location

 

0X00

Flight Test Card #1…… (eg: Capturing data, tuning, etc)

 

 

Flight Test Card #2

 

 

Flight Test Card #…….N

 

0X00

Debrief

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Experiment with tracking antenna

 

 

Bring equipment to flightline

 

Test1 card 1

Hardy Yu manually track the drone

RTL because RC failsafe

Configure direct binding phrase to use normal controller elrs instead of gemini

 

Test 1 card 1

 Nathan Green

Test 2 card 1 practice #1

 Nathan Green

 

 Test 2 card 1 practice #2

 Nathan Green

 

 switch battery

 

Test 2 card 1 practice #3

Nathan Green

Test 2 card 1 practice #4

Nathan Green

Test 2 card 1 practice #5

Yuchen Lin

Presentation Photos

Start 4:30pm

Debrief

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💻 DEBRIEF

Flight test debrief report

Before Card 1:

Before departure

Yuchen Lin didn’t logistic going to flight test → next time book the car beforehand + long weekend machine shop does not open

Yuchen Lin Hardy Yu Testing with huston → connected to mission planner and able to forward the message(test 2 times)

  • first one does not flash the latest code

  • second one see tracking antenna working as expected

After departure

pre-flight tracking antenna testing: (no code change)

Keep rotating without stop and does not work

After adjust to the north keep rotating clockwise

does not help after adding delay

 

Card 1 Test 1

Info

Flight planning

  • conduct half task 1 goal (1.5 lap)

Flight test card requirements/objectives Performance

  • Comp sim

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Control performance & payload situation

  • Four payload in the cabin + alien key

  • Hardy Yu manually track the drone

Note

Identified issue

  • Compass variance issue

  • place the drone backward and cause sharp turning

Warning

Issue need to be RCA

  •  Gemini not working (performance worse than without gemini) → fully lost link

    • Link quality got worst after first lap

    • possible thermal issue

    • flew lost link 750 meter

    • previously tested with the same gemini board with smaller antenna with 3km

    • gemini is not hot at all

    • look at power used(power limit)

 

Card 1 Test 1 retry 1

Info

Flight planning

  • conduct half task 1 goal (1.5 lap)

Flight test card requirements/objectives Performance

  • Check tuning in all three mode and compass variable at full throttle.

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Control performance & payload situation

  • Four payload in the cabin

  • Current draw pretty good at calm weather

  • half of task 1 5000mah

Note

Identified issue

  • aggressive takeoff

  • Almost all the time ekf yellow

Warning

Issue need to be RCA

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Card 2 Test 1

Info

Flight planning

  • Test the auto mission task 2 pathing and training pilot for landing

Flight test card requirements/objectives Performance

  • During flight time upload the mission to pixhawk

  • Arm in auto and complete the mission

  • Pilot navigate through and land on the pad with fpv goggle

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Control performance & payload situation

  • Four payload in the cabin

  • GSO and pilot get familiar with callout (Better callout procedure for less than 1 meter → with range finder) practice next week

  • cannot really callout the height sub 1 meter

  • easy to land on the paved ground

  • all the landing are smooth and within timeframe

  • descent first

Note

Identified issue

  • Daniel Puratich callout at last waypoint based on height not ardupilot

  • Full path does not show outside of planning window

Warning

Issue need to be RCA

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Overall performance and Lessons learned

Outcomes

  • confident in flight characteristics of the drone and electrical robsutness

    • spline waypoints looked good during flight but looks poor on mission plannre

  • low confidence in custom rf links and tracking antenna

    • not using tracking antenna for comp → cc Daniel Puratich to bringup at AEAC

    • Gemini board was low link quality

      • try another gemini board and see if it works

  • Nathan Green apply new mag fit data based on today’s data

Check weather before comp.

Flightline tasks:
bring vtx tower, drone(path uploaded, battery in , shourds on), controller and the monitor

Before takeoff

Daniel Puratich conduct the pre takeoff checklist

manually toggle safety switch

confirm take off flight mode

arm in auto