2024-10-30 EFS Meeting

Announcements

If you work in the bay, please clean up after yourself
- see images above
- this is how equipment / products get lost or damaged
Big flight test this weekend!!
- Daniel offers pancakes before leaving for the flight test
- The tracking antenna will be tested in this flight test Roni Kant Omer Sajid
- If you are interested, you only need to express your interest in the flight test thread
- more detail in the flight test thread: https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1296522287985721408
EFS Pineapple Fried Rice social
- We will have a fun pineapple fried rice dinner after Sunday’s work session
- Will cook pineapple fried rice at anthony’s place
- You should come to the work session and we all have some fried rice together
Hardy Yu is thinking of stepping down from EFS leads next term
- We are looking for new lead
- Please fill out the form if you are interested: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScl3g9h6ECGzn4HfgYfMWBgQP_2IS-OHnS_Kk00rDQMVNCV5Q/viewform?usp=sf_link

ZeroPilot M2/M3

Drivers

Fail-Safe Fix - Uzayr Hussaini Andrew Wang
- Finally got the drone to arm properly with the flight controller (was an issue with the controller mode)
- Implemented Failsafe code in system manager using IsDataNew
- Tested out the code and it works properly (detects when it lost connection and regains connection)
- Final step that we need to do: use logic analyzer or servo motor to test the PWM signals and see if they turn off after the drone is disarmed (after this I can create a PR).

Attitude Manager Anthony Luo

System Manager Hardy Yu

Telemetry Manager Yarema Dzulynsky

Analyzing MavLink messages between drone and GCS (apmplanner2) when running Ardupilot using Wireshark, PyMavlink and Ardupilot SITL (streaming messages via either PyMavlink python script or Ardupilot SITL via UPD/TCP to then connect to via apmplanner2) to understand the sequence in which apmplanner2 expects/sends messages

Path Manager Ayoung Eun

Infrastructure

ZP Validation Image

ZeroPilot New Architecture

Drivers Ethan Leung

Attitude Manager Sam Zhang

System Manager Manasva Katyal

CAN Projects

ESC (Jeffery Zhen)

Servo Tharun Ganeshram

Sensor Cluster Roni Kant

Tochi Okoro haven’t touched this since pre-reading week, will work on it during work session on Sunday
Meeting with Ria Prakash soon to discuss approach on porting the Acconeer distance detector code to our application
Henry Wu and Yutong Zhu , no updates form last time, they have most of the driver code ready and are ready to start testing with the breakout boards
Aidan Fisher no updates from last time

LED Board Folarin Fatola

Groundside Infrastructure

Available Tasks

6s Power Module

PDB that takes 6s lipo battery input and power flight controller and ESCs
We need about 3 ppl managing this task and delivering firmware for
- efficient power management
- CAN interface
6S Power Module

CAN Servo Adaptor

already have two ppl on this task but we feel like we need more help on this project
recently we needed a lot of CAN circuit validation for many of the CAN board designs by EE team
thinking of bringing another person to this project
6S Servo Module Rev 1

ZeroPilot Milestone 2 bringup

Hardy comes to realize that it is not that easy to fly the zeropilot, there are still a lot of tasks that can be more efficiently done if we distribute them
Major issue right now is that many of our drivers don’t work well on the zp3 PCB
We will port the following drivers to the new boardfile, test and verify them
- radio control receiver driver
- rfd900 driver
They should be tasks that can be done within 2 weeks

Setup Ardupilot to use RTs/CTS for RPi Int Rev B Killswitch