Attendance

Light attendance due to midterms, but still vibing meeting!

Others:

Announcements / Admin

• Anthony Luo design doc freeze discussion.

  • There are still sections that need to be filled in.

  • Midterms week will slow us down for next few weeks

  • Need flight tests to determine operational limits of drone

  • Anthony Luo to initiate RFC system

    • not much feedback from others

• Anthony Luo To announce importance of the design document phase 1 paper.

  • What does succeeding on it means for the team?

    • SDC street cred

• Daniel Puratich Recap flight test 2023-10-14: Pegasus Hover, ZP3.5 M1, & Pilot Trainning

  • Nathan Green wrong motor configuration, flipped Pegasus

  • ~100 dollar of damage

    • couple props

    • antenna on LTE module

    • no action items following this, have extra props

  • Daniel Puratich checklist updating

  • Anthony Luo wants the flight test debrief to contain more data analysis and breakdown of what happened

    • We want people to get reasonable data out of the flight

  • We don’t want to drag out the flight test debrief to take a long time to discuss specifics of logs, Alison Thompson Conall Kingshott .

    • putting in the data eventually is useful

    • We test a lot of things on one day bc that's when we have the time and people to fly, Alison Thompson

      • We shouldn’t run so much simultaneously Anthony Luo to avoid overloading

  • Flight test debrief / data analysis needs to happen eventually

    • Can be at end of flight test, can be at another time Megan Spee

  • Split debriefs and flight test into two meetings? Anthony Luo

  • R D what is problem with stacking flight tests?

    • Crunching a lot of responsibility on very few people. Leads to more mistakes.

    • Daniel Puratich in this case, people working on peggy and tubie were split so the task saturation diagnosis Anthony Luo may not be accurate

  • A flight test is a lot of effort, to test a lot of things, we can’t split it up into lots of days Alison Thompson

    • It’s a big endeavor to go to a flight test

    • would rather do a big one then a bunch of small ones

    • Not everyone has to attend every flight test Anthony Luo

      • We have limited people that can fly and people that can drive Alison Thompson

  • R D when we have many flight tests on a single day, there’s a concern that a single person is responsible for things on each of the tests. Can we just limit that? Clearly assign scope.

    • Anthony Luo would allow debriefs to be split up

  • Megan Spee same day flight tests is more convenient, much more time cost to split it. the worth of getting more attention may not be worth it.

  • Anthony Luo flight tests overall could be shorter overall if split up.

  • Alison Thompson Vehicles and Tubie flight same time bc the drivers and cars required.

    • Anthony Luo not every flight test requires drivers, really only Pegasus bc of size and stuff

    • Anthony Luo autonomous missions on houston are easy if people get trained. tubie is much easier to fly then Pegasus. can unblock teams by splitting tests.

  • Anthony Luo was not a fan of debrief and stacking and thinks it went poorly, revisit at end of meeting.

• Daniel Puratich Announce flight test 2023-10-21 Flight Test

• Daniel Puratich Do we want to run an AEAC sync next week?

  • midterms week next week

  • lotta people offsite

  • so we gonna run it

Action Items (we do these right now and assign immediately)

Updates / Blockers / Finished items

Airframe ON TRACK

Payload IN POG-RESS (POG)

Aerodynamics IN POG-RESS (POG)

Sensors IN POG-RESS (POG)

PDB IN POG-RESS (POG)

Harnessing IN POG-RESS (POG)

Gemini IN POG-RESS (POG)

 PCB

Farris Matar carried 😎, notes he left:

• Through hole components still need to be soldered on, we also didn’t get the SMD loop testpoints in the order so we’ll need to order those w the next Digikey order

• Quite a few bridges to clean up on some of the ICs

• ESP01F still needs to be ordered in the next aliexpress order and assembled. Some of the pads for it are bridged and will need to be fixed to prevent shorts

• One board is missing an 0603 green LED, 1 got lost while I was placing them

• Some of the pads for the TX modules may need to be touched up on 1 of the boards
  

Antenna TrackerIN POG-RESS (POG)

Auto-landing NOT STARTED

Pathing

Testing goals for near future

Arch Doc