2023-09-12 Meeting Notes

Welcome!

Conall Kingshott

Introductions

Conall Kingshott

• Name, program, year, favourite song/album

Leads:

• Onsite(ish):Conall Kingshott

• Offsite: Nathan Green

Project Managers:

• Cabin:Alison Thompson

• Antenna Tracker:Arjun Mandair

• Simulation/Aero: Smile Khatri

Intro 2: Electric Boogaloo

Conall Kingshott

• Meeting and work session times
  - Mech Meeting: Wednesday 8PM
  - Work Sessions: TBD
  - Comp sync Tuesday 9PM

• What we are trying to teach/learn and how we go about it

• Expectations (Communication in discord, professionalism, positive learning environment)

• Bootcamp and taking on tasks

Initial Question interlude

• Any pressing questions/concerns probably linked to above content?

Comp frame project explanation and check-in

Conall Kingshott

• Show CAD

• Weight check in and manufacturing technique explanation

• Work on Cabin, mounts, and shields in next ~2 terms

Antenna tracker explanation and check-in

Arjun Mandair

• Show CAD

Fixes that need to be implemented

• Lessen overall weight and material consumption

  • Will help with overall inertia of the system

• Lessen amount of set screws utilized on shaft

• 90 degree sheet metal bend instead of machined block

• Supports on servo mount

  • Also beef up overall design of servo mount

• Sensor mounting

• Waterproofing

Questions

• Continuous rotation servo?

• Servo on plate instead of bottom?

  • Will make the sensor mounting weird or difficult

  • May need to increase plate size

  • Increase overall inertia

• Servo Wire tangling?

  • Slip ring?

• Wiring antenna tracker to ground?

Will Update Asana after confirmations!

Houston explanation and check-in

Conall Kingshott

• What is Houston

• Landing gear stuff

• Upcoming weatherproofing

FEA/SIM explanation

Smile Khatri

• Basics on what sims/FEA is

• Software we can use: SolidWorks simulations, Ansys Fluent & Ansys for FEA and CFD

• Simulation workshops starting late September

  • Workshop 1 will go in-depth about CFD, fundamentals of aircraft aerodynamics which will help us improve our design

  • opportunity to learn Ansys Fluent (popular software for running CFD sims)

  • Workshop 2 will be focused on FEA, static and dynamic sims. I.e. we can use FEA to determine whether our landing gear can withstand the impact from the drone landing

McMaster Order

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Asana Time!

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