2023-09-16 Autonomy : Directors

Jetson Airside

Can do a usb to uart converter (ftdi cable)

Nvidia sponsorship or connect tech sponsorship? Or another way of getting jetson carrier boards?

No backups on components: have people compile lists of viable tech and then request sponsorship.

Worried about stuff breaking, camera and carrier are weak. CAn ask mech to make a case for the carrier (ensure heatsink remains exposed)

Lo5s of engagement for aiside stuff

Imacs

Imacs is blocked by other tasks. Lots of ppanned tasks but data telem blocks them. Blockers are taking a whike

Allowing people to use non-clean code to unblock people.

Assigning out testing.

Assigning out documentation

Not a lot of engagement last term

Imacs is pretty delayed, is a nice to have for comp but is low priority.

What are useful things we can add to missionplanner? Autonomy could make tools for data analysis?

Imacs feels like reinventing the wheel, dont wanna do that in the futurr but fine ti finish this project. Reasonable to backburnerbit fot jetson autolanding.

Pathing

Going well, first flight test at wrestrc its ready - full unit tested. Mihir adding github workflows, aqaitting pr, coukd be offloaded.

General

Getting people to understand how to contribute to a wide drdign is hard. People can easily due small tasks.

Project managers go to xierumeng sessions

For 2025 possibly looking fot suas or auvsi so ….

New CV lead: grt more people as PM then a third auto. Sent google forms for pm interest.

Few people have left the team. Daniel recommending socials and work sessions to build engagement. Work sessions are good. Will be implemented this term. Bay introduction meeting to get people in person.

Asana cleanup, getting rid of past terms tasks.

Possibly using robohubbdrones to test object avoidance. They have lidar and deptg camera drones in there. Use as a test platform. Mihit and Amy doing trainnings. Email has details.

Will leverage Asana tasks.

Xierumeng

Documentation

Pr reviews

Doing system designs

New Proj3cts:

Depending on how comp stuff goes: could start on object avoidance. Focus on auto land for now.

Not going to use ROS for autonomy. Shrinjay said if zp uses ros then cv could use it for ez communications. Dronekit is rlly simple and ez to use.

Zp is supost to be like ardupilot. Should coordina5ing with EFS so that zeropilot supports mavlink and autonomy doesnt have to chsngr anything between the two.