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Debrief

Flight Card 1

Recap

Photos below are also in onedrive

Flight 1 - 5 m altitude

West

Flight 2 - 10 m altitude

West

Flight 3 - 20 m altitude

West

Flight 4 - 20 m altitude

315 deg (i.e. in NW direction)

Good

• Geolocation logs worked, will update with photos after checking them

• Auto starts with Houston when powered up

Bad

• Camera direction needs to be labeled for installing

  • Distance/offset for camera location needs to be known at some point

Flight Card 2

Recap

Cloudy weather

Grass in the background

IR emitter set on top of controller box

Flight 1 - 5 m

Flight 2 - 10 m

Flight 3 - 15-20 m

Good

• Lots of images

• Different altitudes

Bad

• Not great images

  • Need a better camera with global shutter due to vibe and drifting of drone

• IR camera broke before flight test, glued back on (Nathan glued it)

• Took a while prior to leaving for flight to get set up on Pi

Flight Card 3

Recap

Flight 1 - completed script

Flight 2 - tested canceling script switching to loiter

Good

• Script completed well, armed and took off drone in auto and successfully switched from Auto to Guided at flags

Bad

Flight Card 4

Recap

Good

Bad

• Could not switch from Auto/Guided to Loiter in the middle of the script

  • Was able to switch to RTL though

• RTL switch to Loiter cut thrust and drone fell, caught with RTL but switch to loiter caused same issue

  • Hard landing, nothing was damaged

  • Thrust on controller was at 50% during this too

  • Test script on drone with lower altitude to problem solve switching to loiter issue

    • Simulation successfully switched from auto/guided to loiter, but did not translate to real flight

Action Items

• Check photos for IR and Geolocation

• Check path from guided mode and compare to simulation

• Check RTL to loiter transition issues