2024-11-15 Autonomy Meeting

Pathing

@Jane Zeng

• Circle mode will be speedrunning now

  • Can assign

• Waypoint circles is merged

• Achita is working on KML generation, should be up soon

  • Tests for ensuring competition style valid

• How is the path generation going?

• Water search - PR is up

Airside

@Ashish Agrahari

• @Aleksa Misic Cluster estimation progress

  • Merged

• Communications worker

  • Also needs to be able to send data to ground through mavlink (communications messages: FILE_TRANSFER_PROTOCOL (110) File Transfer Protocol (FTP) | MAVLink Guide )

• Reassigned @Aayush Deshpande to cluster estimation logs

• @John Zhang ground communication using FTP

• @Lucas Liao Perhaps send STATUSTEXT messages on camera startup and bootup

Other Tasks:

• @Achita Anantachina Classical CV method tests

  • Seems to be working!

• @Siddh Patel Add a CV detection configuration to detect the IR emitters (brightspots)

  • Working on it. Starting making tests.

From last meeting (to be updated):

• @Shahvir Wahab Testing ROS with ardupilot

  • Sync with Eddy and @Tong Zhang about future of ROS

• @Victor Terme Auto landing module (for task 2)

  • Unassigned

• @Daniel Wang Detect Target Logging

  • Merged

• @Andrew Wan @Arjun Sodhi Rudimentary geolocation

  • approach switch → trig, better understanding now

• @Bruce wang (not sure which bruce wang) Do edge detection of water bucket for task 2

  • Need to reconsider task, as it is related to classical CV code task - make new

  • Changed → Get pictures using CV camera

• @Leonardo Zhou Detect white

  • Detect white spots in an image

• No updates from @bilal.osman @Benson Yan @Davis Liu @sydave @Shahvir Wahab

ML

@Vibhinn Gautam

• No notes as of now.

IMACS

@Balaji Leninrajan

• PRs for

  • Create widget for camera (Reviewed)

  • Implement UI to change address and port (reviews in progress)

  • Create RTL (Going to be merged soon)

• All other tasks in progress

Obstacle Avoidance

@Vyomm Khanna

• Adjusted the guided mode script to diagnose throttle issues when changing from AUTO/GUIDED to LOITER. Added two more auto-guided-auto switches to test more guided mode functionalities

  • 10x10m square → make map with measurements of exact drone path for flight test doc

• wrapping up integration tests for all new obstacle-avoidance modules

• completed unit tests for lidar_parser, vfh, decision.

IR Camera + detection

@Vibhinn Gautam

• Please find more IR cameras, have a $720 budget sitting around that will expire Dec 20 (DEADLINE TO ORDER IS NOV 27-29!!).

  • Get a few members tasked on this, we need more people

  • Create decision matrix in confluence

  • 940nm detection

  • Global shutter

  • Non-distorting
    Assign this please!

• Buy portable monitor - task is up. Goal is to be able to view it in sunlight (brightness should be high). And it should be portable too.

  • Purchase request sent @Tochi Okoro

• MEF presentation went well! Results expected in a week or two

• Camera driver @Alex Liu

  • Testing with Rpi and picam, took home the hardware (1 each)