2025-01-16 Electrical Meeting

Agenda

Introductions
Info about the team and goals for this term
General updates for this week
Flight test
Reminders
Competition updates
Eclipse (fixed wing updates)
Project updates

Attendance

In person	Online

Team Info

https://uofwaterloo-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/m2dang_uwaterloo_ca/EQth80dq7DtIkZgCvulYfxcBgJrxdD7GeU_YgO1J3dSUxg?e=DJEqbT

Our competition

May 9-11
Fire fighting themed
Task 1 is mapping ir hotspots
Task 2 is dropping water in buckets
Comp syncs Mondays at 9
Check out Conops for AEAC! Get involved in comp syncs for discussion https://www.aerialevolution.ca/annual-student-competition/

Why joining WARG EE is a good idea?

Great mentorship
WARG is well run
Testimonies

Project Goals this Term:

Entire Eclipse electrical system
- Trying to get people super involved in the system
- Gonna be super fun getting involved
Peggy payload
Ongoing boards (more later)
New project/programs?
- Tracking antenna hybrid board
- Custom battery, PDB, ESC?
Continued work on LED board program?
Continued work on current boards
Plan for doing boards: Main person PM, smaller tasks

General Updates

Leads:
- Ryan Scomazzon (onsite)
- Meghan Dang (offsite)
Project managers
- Kenny Na : Eclipse PM
- Nolan Haines Ahmed Osman : Tracking antenna w ELRS
- Andrew Chai (offsite) TBD
- If you have been around for a term or so and are interested in being PM, reach out and we can get you involved! Could be higher commitment or just leading a bigger project.
  - We got lots we can do
  - https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=h1o6cprzIkqSRz_CQMATlnJ_8qERK-dMn1dJnIofYSJUNzUxRjc2T1BOWFI4U1ZSUlgyMDBBSFRHNy4u feedback/leadership interest
Meeting times
- How does this time work?
- Not too late to fill out https://lettucemeet.com/l/ROLvD
Work sessions
- We typically do work sessions for things like harnessing and creating PCBAs
- Probably wont start until next week
- What times work for everyone? After flight tests?
- https://lettucemeet.com/l/n7AK5
  - Note this is a time that will reoccur weekly
  - Might not do every week depending on interest and what needs to be done.
Competition Interest Form
- https://forms.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=h1o6cprzIkqSRz_CQMATlohH8WBFXHtOjCR7Pcx0oF1UQzFXMFFCSU4xNk5LUTc4RVZMNkRYOEZSTS4u
- This MUST be considered if you want to go to competition
- Comp is fun and I am jealous I didn't go last year.
- We can only bring 10 people so we definitely can’t bring everyone
- Wont hurt to fill out anyways.
Start of board order
- Date pending
- Driven by Meghan Dang
- Thoughts from people here?
Pick&Place machine
- This exists in the SDC
- No one is using it
- Sahil was told he can use it if he wants to set it up
- Since it is just collecting dust, we can probably convince them to take it
- Needs someone who cares enough to drive it though

Flight Test

What is a flight test?
Where do we go?
- WRESTRC
Not mandatory but cool to see the drone in action.
Planned to be on Sundays this term
Last flight test
- https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1306721339750613063
- 2024-12-14 Pegasus 2 Manual Piloting Flight Test - Flight Tests - WARG
- Plan was to test system for competition task 2
- Found our planned landing solution would be too risky
  - Tuning was less stable than expected
- Water tank was leaky
  - Mech problem, they are working on it
- Batteries sagged too much in the cold. Hard for autonomy to collect cluster data.
  - Gonna have to find a solution for future flight tests
Next flight test
- January 19th (This Sunday)
- https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1326631979805966432
- 2025-1-19 Autonomy Flight test - Flight Tests - WARG
- Plan:
  - Autonomy cluster estimation test

Reminders

Don’t forget to fill out the team roster: https://forms.office.com/r/ka0MJHJQ9D
Make sure to clean up after yourself
Get the electronsite role if on site - reach out to Ryan Scomazzon if you have issues
Competition syncs Mondays at 9pm
Eclipse sync Tuesdays at 8pm
Reach out if you need help on a project or bootcamp
Recruit your friends!
- More fun with friends
- If you like the team, then we can do even more with more people!

Pegasus/Competition Updates

Brief overview of competition tasks
Last term the plan was to land on the barrel
At the end of term flight test, we realized the tuning is not reliable enough for this and if the drone clips the barrel, its ggs
Now we will be doing a winch that lowers the pump
A new pump is needed, servo will likely be controlled by Pixhawk. Worst case we do an single servo driver
1-2 servos needed
If someone wants to help with this you are welcome