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📣 Announcements

  • Tong Zhang will be stepping down as lead

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✈️ Upcoming Flight Tests

  • IR Detect target attempt 2

    • Ground test 4:30pm: Ensure camera settings are good to go in outdoor conditions

    • Note: 90% chance of heavy snow Saturday, so may be cancelled

    • Attendees: Tochi Okoro Matias Rivas Rohan Katreddy

  • IR Detect target with brightness filter Victor Huang ?

    • Ground test goals:

      • Brightness filter

      • MAVLink if possible, although there are complications…

  • Full system test/comp simulation

    • Pathing – circle for finding hotspots

\uD83D\uDDE3 Discussion topics

Project

PM

Notes

Pathing

Balaji Leninrajan Evan Zhao

  • Honzik Schenk had a PR up

  • Matias Rivas's task is in progress

    • PR is up

    • Plan to re-migrate main_2025 after this gets merged

  • Common migration is still being reviewed, will probably have more bandwidth to look into this next week - Balaji Leninrajan

  • Evan Zhao Finding water route PR under review – but more scrutiny is also needed for double-checking validity of algorithm after realizing a test case was wrong – Evan

  • Common migration will probably need to be given to Balaji Leninrajan as Evan turned out to not have enough time + next week will be reading week :/ – Evan

Airside

Achita Anantachina Herman Gahra

  • Herman Gahra Using message_encode_decode to send MAVlink messages to flight controller

    • PR merged

  • Jane Zeng MAVLink integration test

    • merged

  • Aleksa Misic cluster estimation by labels

    • label no longer input, rebased

    • Waiting review

  • Rohan Katreddy Integration test for cluster estimation

    • PR is ready

    New RPi setup complete!

    • Under review

  • Tochi Okoro Autolanding module + worker

    • Under review, almost ready

    • (Not being included in main for now)

  • John Zhang MAVLink FTP

    • PR is updated

    • Evan Zhao Unit test from logs_to_kml failing

  • Adrian Lock Communication unit test

    • some issues, progressMerged

  • Siddh Patel profile performance

    PR is up

  • Victor Huang Min brightness filter

    • Almost done

  • Yibo Yang Cluster estimation – filter by number of points in cluster

    • Progress, almost done

MAVLink update:

  • STATUSTEXT messages have strings as input (null terminated), so we cannot send the byte “0”

  • Try these 3 other messages, and see if they get forwarded from flight controller (pixhawk/simulator) to ground station: https://mavlink.io/en/messages/common.html

    • DEBUG_VECT (250)

    • NAMED_VALUE_FLOAT (251)

    • NAMED_VALUE_INT (252)

IMACS

Vibhinn Gautam

  • Tochi Okoro SITL controller

    • Going (pretty) well so far, worked on heartbeat sender/receiver.

    • Can start/stop the drone simulator

  • Alex Liu Updates?

    • To follow up: new library for camera and writing tests

  • Andrew Wan add waypoints to queue

    • Started, no updates so far.Almost complete, testing in progress

  • Hasan Baig Map widget

    • Some progress made this week.

  • Leonardo Zhou no updates so far. Might need to re-assign.

  • personally I am looking to update documentations over reading week as it is confusing and outdated

Obstacle Avoidance

Vyomm Khanna

  • Andrew’s reviewed the PRs , merging them into OA repo by tomtommorw.

  • Working on final unit + integration tests for VFHDecision that were blocked by the merge

  • Ready to roll out task: Implementing module to translate output of the VFHDecision Module into a MAVLink command to deflect the drone using flight-interface and controller.

IR Camera + detection

ML

✅ Action items

  •  Follow up with Arpan Roy for his task
  •  Comp sync: Add extra camera for detecting sign of fire? (If it gives points)

⤴ Decisions