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.

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

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

The first stage of the development of simple SM would be building the UART and PPM protocol bridge such that the drone will be flyable by manual control. The anticipated first flight test will happen by the end of May.
Then it can move on to the second stage, which is testing and fixing TM and Mavlink so that the drone can fly autonomously. The flight test for the autonomous flight will be 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.

Mileston	Owner	Deadline
Class structure design	Hardy Yu	May 12th
PPM	Hardy Yu Stanley Tang Ayoung Eun	May 21th
RFD UART	Hardy Yu	May 21th
Integration, Testing, Review	Hardy Yu	May 26th
Houston Flight Test #1	Hardy Yu	May 27th
MAVlink	Hardy Yu Stanley Tang	June 2nd
TM	Hardy Yu Aaditya Chaudhary	June 8th
Integration, Testing, Review	Hardy Yu	June 9th
Houston Flight Test #2	Hardy Yu	June 10th

How does the simple system manager interact with ZP3 and LOS?
Is this linear loop system going to work? Does it need to run under a certain frequency? What can be the potential issues to this system and how to avoid them?