Simple System Manager MicroArch

Principle Engineer	Hardy Yu
Forced to Review	Anthony Luo Aaditya Chaudhary Ayoung Eun
Objective	Simple manager that coordinates the competition flight system
Due date	20 Jun 2023
Key outcomes	Design and implement an object-oriented system running in a linear loop that can communicate with the ground station, tower, and Pixhawk to make a drone fly
Status	DESIGN

🤔 Problem Statement

With the complicated competition flight system, we need high-level software to aid us in the coordination of different sub-systems. The flight system EFS came out last year has a fantastic and delicate architecture, but it also takes way longer time than we expected to accomplish. We want to have a high-level system with simpler logic that can fly a drone with the aid of Pixhawk as the backup plan for competition.

🌐 Scope

Current Must Haves:	Support input/output by PPM, MAVlink Object-oriented (class) run in a FreeRTOS thread Proper flow of function calls
Future Expansion:	Support SBUS
Not in scope:	No managment to AM, TM, or PM. Everything will instead be accomplished by autopilot

🫠 High-Level Flowchart

This is the rough idea of how it is gonna work
please point out the flaw in this type of design and the missing part of the system

🗓️ Timeline

The goal is to have the first flyable prototype done in mid-June. The actual time span can be longer since there will be a lot of components involved and they all need testing and debugging. The good part is that Hardy Yu has enough time to invest in this development since he is the coop.

🚩 Milestones & Deadline

Mileston	Owner	Deadline
Class structure design	Hardy Yu	May 12th
PPM	Hardy Yu Stanley Tang Ayoung Eun	May 21th
MAVlink	Hardy Yu Stanley Tang	May 21th
SM Coding	Hardy Yu	May 26th
Integration & Testing	Hardy Yu	May 9th
Houston Flight Test	Hardy Yu	June 10th