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titleAttendance
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titleSummarizing Recent Flight Tests
  • Yuchen Lin Nathan Green

  • Completed auto-tune all axis

    • four batteries

    • logs in thread, should be linked in debrief

    • we didn't fly much after autotune so minimal changes

    • Anthony Luo to analyze

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titleAdmin
  • Daniel Puratich

  • Next deadline is phase one paper

  • No more AEAC syncs for this term!

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titleAirframe Structure (Frame, Arms)
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titleCabin
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titleAvionics & Battery Shrouds
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titleMonster Mount (Sensors: Rangefinder, Optical Flow, & Autonomy Downward Camera)
  • Smile Khatri Mena Azab

  • Clevis pin

    • funny looking bendy one

    • they don’t make smaller ones with same diameter

    • won’t accomplish goal of less play/give by using a smaller one, would make it worse bc 3d printed part

      • could do a reccess in dovetail?

      • might not be worth effort

  • Cotter pin

    • the straight one with the hole in it

    • This is already the smallest one they have on

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titleAerodynamic Simulations
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titleSensors (Non-monster mount, LiDAR)
  • Nathan Green Alison Thompson

  • LiDAR mount exists for Houston and is ready to go

    • needs to be test fit but should be fine

    • M2.5 bolt to drone, M4 on LiDAR

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titleCustom PDB
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titleAircraft System Schematic
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titleAircraft System Bulk Capacitance
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titleAircraft System Harnessing
  • Mena Azab

  • No updates other than rerouting the ESC wires.

  • Ordered and received more 16awg.

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titleLEDs System Mechanical
  • Nathan Green Conall Kingshott

  • Worried about the M4 solution

    • M4 was originally decided for the motor mount bolts

    • It’s tough to prove board will be okay without testing in place

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titleLED PCBA
  • Neel Patel Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

  • Switch XT30 to solder pads for more clearance

  • 3mm clearance on back of board

  • Do two boards

    • One the M4 for motor mounts

    • Other with M3s

      • Then mount with heat-sets

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titleGemini Custom
  • Hardware

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titleGemini Hardware Programming
  • Derek Tang Anthony Luo

  • Three boards assembled

    • Two have been tested thus far

  • There is a test plan in discord from Anni

    • early next term possibly flying it

  • Plan

    • Gemini to Gemini

      • easier to test in this configuration

    • Gemini to two diversity receiver

      • more common online

    • Getting a lot of radios on drone

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titleTracking Antenna Mechanical
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titleTracking Antenna Electrical
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titleTracking Antenna Sensors & Firmware

Yuchen Lin Stanley Tang Ayoung Eun Aryan Kashem

  • IMU sensor fusion complete - track antenna rotation + know which direction is North

  • Configured XBee to communicate

  • Still need to connect XBee with Arduino

  • Should prepare to use mini pix or COTS solutions

    • something with just integration time

    • fairly isolated task

    • need to start on backup plan

    • currently it is mechanically working 3d printed in bay

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titleObject Detection Autonomy
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titleLTE RPi Setup (Airside Autonomy System) & Camera System (Houston & Pegasus)
  • Tong Zhang Amy Hu Mihir Gupta Nathan Green

  • We hooked up the Jetson with the ZeroTier network and we can read drone telemetry from the Jetson.

  • We are working towards sending images to the drone which we will finish in the next term. Right now we are profiling different image encodings to see which is the best one to use.

    • We will be using a lot of data for this?

      • 6 gb of data is 30 mins of 1 img per sec

        • just pngs right now

        • looking into different encoding specs

    • change code to only transmit images when landing pad is spotted

      • could reduce usage time a lot

      • system is not setup for that right now

      • could be on a communication between pixhawk and RPi to tell it when to start looking for pads

      • the RPi can already read MAVLINK telemetry

      • simple solutions plz

        • excessively transmitting to gnd is kinda hard …

      • this is possible

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titlePathing Algorithms/Software
  • Arunav Munjal Amy Hu

  • Task 2 code working on mission planner and realflight simulator, however

    • USB test had some issues so will be looking into fixing that

    (
      • connect usb from ground station to pixhawk directly

    • Define new “Location” class in common repository first

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titleHouston Camera Mount

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titleUpcoming Flight Test(s)
  • Hardy Yu Yuchen Lin Anthony Luo Daniel Puratich

  • Remaining Testing Goals before end of term

    • Ground Testing

      • Gemini

      • Video over LTE

      • Calibrate Optical Flow

      • Monster mount offsets

        • for rangefinder and Optical Flow

      • Tracking Antenna

    • Flight Testing

      • Pegasus Autotune

        • autotune cannot be run in doors, too much space

        Pegasus Four Battery Endurance

        • Autotune required

      • Pegasus Six Battery Endurance

        • We do not have enough nice batteries for this

  • Save more testing plans for next term?

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titlePhase #1 Paper
  • Georgia Vachon Westerlund

  • Phase #1 Paper Link

    Current State:

    Internal Deadline: Dec 6th

  • Official Deadline: mid January (see gcal)

  • Please ping leads if you do not have editing permissions

  • Do not copy paste AI into AEAC paper

    • Daniel Puratich trolled this morning

    • mfw initiating the super long AI conversations go brrr