Sub-team | Item | Description (purpose/what it does, product link) | Cost (incl. unit cost and quantity) | Estimated lifespan | Implementations schedule (when will we start using it) | |
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Autonomy | Jetson Nano (moving to MEF?) | Computer that allows us to run our airside system on the drone. It’s good because it provides the necessary hardware for us to run our airside system and LTE telemetry. NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit (945-13450-0000-100) : Amazon.ca: Electronics | $279.09 x 2 = $558.18 | Lifetime | Next Comp Cycle | |
LTE Hat (moving to MEF?) | Board to allow Jetson Nano to connect to LTE networks. 4G/3G/2G/GNSS Expansion Board for Jetson Nano, Based on SIM7600G-H, Global Applicable (waveshare.com) | $76.99 x 2 = $153.98 | Lifetime | |||
Laptop with GPU | Computer with GPU to allow the airside system to run on the ground and also serve as the ground station computer. ASUS ROG Strix G15 (2022) Gaming Laptop, 15.6” 165Hz IPS Type WQHD Display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, AMD Ryzen 7 6800H, 16GB DDR5, 1TB PCIe SSD, RGB Keyboard, Windows 11 Home, G513RM-AS71-CA : Amazon.ca: Electronics | $1679.00 | Lifetime | |||
Electrical | JST Crimper | Crimping tool that is specific to JST connectors. JST connectors are primarily used to interface with the Pixhawk flight controller. A good quality crimper is required because these connectors are small and require precise crimps. | $100 - 1 | Lifetime | As soon as possible | |
Wire Stripper | Strips the insulation of wires. 10awg-28awg | $20x5 | Lifetime until they dull | As soon as possible | ||
Handheld Oscilloscope | Small handheld oscilloscope which would make testing and debugging in the field more convenient | $50 - 1 | Lifetime | As soon as possible | ||
PCB manufacturing | PCB manufacturing and electronic components on PCB | Max $2500, Min $2000 | - | - | ||
Drone harnessing | Wires, Connectors | Max $600, Min $400 | - | - | ||
Obsolete Hardware | Upgrading damaged or old drone electronics | Max $500 Min $300 | - | - | ||
Embedded Flight Software | GPS Sensor | Absolutly crucial sensor on every drone. It help tracks the position of the drone, so more high level control algorithm can be applied to make it fly better. Tracking antenna also needs GPS, since the rationale behind tracking antenna is pointing the head of the antenna with knowing the relative GPS position of the tower and the drone | With unit price of 40$ each (actual price can vary 30 ~ 100 depending on quality and market), we would like to request for 4 or 5 more GPSs https://rotorvillage.ca/foxeer-m10-q250-gps/ or https://holybro.com/collections/gps/products/nano-m8-5883-gps-module or RTK GPS(good ones): | 5 years (not quite sure) | As soon as we get the funding | |
IMU Sensor | The even more crucial sensor on a drone than GPS. It tells you the acceleration of motion, rotational motion, etc to help the drone to maintain its proper attitude. Use in both our custome flight control software Zeropilot and Tracking Antenna | 20 $ each, need 5 more | 5 years | As soon as we get the funding | ||
GPS Antenna | The RTK GPS could get a stronger signal with is antenna module | 2 * 75$ | 5 years | As soon as the GPSs arrived | ||
XBees (or see if we can find any replacement of that) | Wireless communication module for delivery drone telemetry radio wirelessly | 4 * 50$ | 10 years | The sooner the better | ||
Testing Fixed Wing Plane | Made up by foam as body + wing bar + servos + motor + propller + metal sticks We need to make more/maintain | 200 $ | uhhh (it might just disappear in one filght test) | Before we finished our milestone 2 in our flight controller software (probably this term) | ||
STM32 Nucleo | This type of microcontroller had always been used for the WARG flight controller. And we constently need to procure more as we are having more testing going and some of the board are damaged | 5 * 30$ | 10 years | After midterms | ||
Arduino | Arduino is used currently on the tracking antenna to do all the computation. More of the arduino might be used later for the ground station and testing system | 3 * 40$ | 10 years | Not very urgent | ||
Radiomaster Ranger | A telemetry/control radio transmitter. One of the favorite telemtry delivery solutions in the team. We only had one before, would very nice if we don’t have to flight for it, and have our own in efs. | 120$ | 10 years | Will be used immediately after getting it | ||
Mechanical | Airframe Manufacturing | Carbon fibre, foam, aluminum stock, fasteners, wood, servos, misc hardware | $1500 - Carbon fibre raw material and tubes for continuing competition drone program $750 - Foam, hardware, servos, and wood for new fixed-wing design | |||
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Since WEEF likes us to ask for items in groups, we have category names (which are identical to the WEEF funding account table table below.
names). If anyone is compiling a list of request items and think of a category name they see fit, they can indicate so in the
Sub-team | Category name | Funding Options (CAD) (4 funding options for WEEF to consider giving you) Eg. Option 1: $1000 (with 2 product A + 1 product B + 1 product C ) Option 2: $700 (with 1 product A + 1 product B ) |
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Autonomy | Airside Compute Hardware (moving to MEF?) | Option 1: 1600 (Jetson Nano x2 + LTE Hat x2) Option 2: 1400 (Jetson Nano x2 + LTE Hat x1) Option 3: 800 (Jetson Nano x1 + LTE Hat x1) Option 4: 600 (Jetson Nano x1) |
Groundside Compute Platform | Option 1: 2000 Option 2: 1700 Option 3: 1600 Option 4: 1500 | |
Electrical | PCB + Harness assembly tools | Option 1: 3850 (PCB x 8 + Wires x 100 meter + Harness tools x 5 + Handheld Oscilloscope x 1) Option 2: 3600 (PCB x 7 + Wires x 85 meter + Harness tools x 4) Option 3: 3300 (PCB x 6 + Wires x 70 meter + Harness tools x 3) Option 4: 3000(PCB x 5 + Wires x 55 meter + Harness tools x 2) |
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Aircraft Avionics (combination of the prev two categories, not a new stuff) | Option 1: $2050 (Foam plane parts, Radio receiver * 2, Small Servos * 8, Nucleo * 5, Jumpers, Motors * 4, Propllers * 8, RadioMaster Ranger * 1, GPS * 6, IMU * 4, XBee * 4, GPS Antenna * 2, Arduino * 3) Option 2: $1700 ( Foam plane parts, Radio receiver * 2, Small Servos * 8, Nucleo * 5, Jumpers, Motors * 4, Propllers * 8, GPS * 4, IMU * 4, XBee * 4, GPS Antenna * 2) Option 3: $1300 (Foam plane parts, Radio receiver * 2, Small Servos * 8, Nucleo * 5, Jumpers, GPS * 4, IMU * 4, XBee * 3) Option 4: $900 (Foam plane parts, Radio receiver * 2, Small Servos * 8, GPS * 3, IMU * 2, XBee * 3) | |
Mechanical | Airframe Manufacturing | Option 1: $2250 (Comp drone CF and aluminum parts, fixed wing plane development materials) Option 2: $2000 (Comp drone CF and aluminum parts, half of fixed wing development budget) Option 3: $1500 (Comp drone CF and aluminum parts) Option 4: $1000 (less comp drone CF and aluminum parts) |
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