Planning

Scope

• Houston

  • Tracking Antenna Pushed to 2024-11-30 for now, issue with sending data

    • 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

  • New landing gear test

    • Alison Thompson to monitor and update status

    • Pegasus 2 new landing gear testing moved to next week due to decision from Alison Thompson

  • Pilot training

    • Evan Janakievski

Flight Cards

Flight Card 1 → pushed to another week

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Flight Card 2

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

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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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0. Setup

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

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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
Setup IR camera image collection script	Get the script to run (either manually or auto start on bootup)	Script is not running
Fly at 20m altitude and test with the following camera settings : ISO 1600… ISO 800… Collect (ISO 16, 12, ExposureTime 36, 72) 4 flights total.	ollect images of different camera exposure settings and heights

Flight Card

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3

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Timeline ~ Pending

• Daniel Puratich requested earlier flight test

Attendees

Evan Janakievski

Flight Card 4

Timeline

• Nov 22

  • Charge 3s batteries

  • Charge controller batteries

• Nov 23

  • 8:30 charge 6s batteries

  • 9:00 people show up and ensure systems are working to leave on time

  • 9:30 leave for WRESTRC

  • 9:50 arrive

  • 10:00 Flight Card 2 Flight 1 → ISO 1600

  • 10:20 Flight Card 2 Flight 2 → ISO 800

    • Following this flight, CV camera installed for IR camera

  • 10:40 Flight Card 4 Flight 1 → Pilot training

  • 11:10 Flight Card 3 Flight 1 → Cluster Estimation 5 m

  • 11:30 Flight Card 3 Flight 2 → Cluster Estimation 10m

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

  • 12:10 Pack up and leave

  • 12:30 arrive at bay, unpack, and debrief

Attendees

• Evan Janakievski

• Maxwell Lou

• Nathan Green

• Daniel Puratich

Key People Not Attending

If you’re directly involved in this stuff and cannot make this test please note it here. All onsite FTCs and subteam leads should fill this out please.

Debrief

Pre Flight

• Left late for WRESTRC

• Have more Autonomy members involved in flight tests

Flight Card 1

Recap

Good

Bad

Flight Card 2

Recap

Flight 1

• Camera settings: ISO 16, ExposureTime 36

• Images were black, too dark

• Camera cable ribbon cable

Flight 2

• Camera settings: ISO 16, ExposureTime 250

• IR beacon was visible, slightly dark, and slightly out of focus

• Room for improvement

• Camera ribbon cable came unplugged as well as RFD

Flight 3

• Camera settings: ISO 32, ExposureTime 200

• Errors with Houston caused aborting flight

  • Motor shaft issues → need to order new motors

  • Vibe issues → shock mounts for Pixhawk

• Need to test these settings as no images were taken → double check

Good

• Got some data for camera

Bad

• Ideal settings were not found

• Issues with Houston arose and will not be flown until fixed

Flight Card 3 → did not complete see Flight Card 2

Recap

Good

Bad

Flight Card 4 → did not complete, started to rain

Recap

Good

Bad

Post:

• Do Houston flights in SDC to discover issues and flush out problems prior to doing outdoor tests

• Do more ground tests for cluster estimation

  • Battery connector needs to be added to IR beacon and remove light sensor → delegate to EE Maxwell Lou

• Autonomy needs to make minimum viable product

  • Make assumptions (ie one beacon visible at a time)

  • Tight timeline