2024-11-15 Autonomy Meeting

Pathing

Jane Zeng

• Circle mode will be speedrunning now

• Waypoint circles is pushed!

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

• How is the path generation going?

• Water search?

Airside

Ashish Agrahari

• Cluster estimation progress

  • Awaiting merge and rebase

• Communications worker

  • Also needs to be able to send data to ground through mavlink (communications messages: FILE_TRANSFER_PROTOCOL (110) https://mavlink.io/en/services/ftp.html )

• The ground will then run a script to parse the GPS coords from the mavlink messages – Data encoding task

• Perhaps send STATUSTEXT messages on camera startup and bootup

Other Tasks:

• Achita Anantachina Classical CV method tests

  • Decided that Achita will improve current CV implementation, by using parts of Nathan’s code

• 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

  • PR is up - logger changes need to be added to main_2024

• Andrew Wan Arjun Sodhi Rudimentary geolocation

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

  • Waiting for brightspot images

• Evan Zhao Setup a communication protocol for sending GPS points

  • Descoped → Moving to enccode/decode messages (floats)

• @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

• Andrew Wan and Arjun Sodhi Rudimentary geolocation

  • Working together

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

ML

Vibhinn Gautam

• No notes as of now.

IMACS

Balaji Leninrajan

• PRs for

  • Create widget to execute terminal scripts

  • 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

• 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

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

  • Create decision matrix in confluence

  • 940nm detection

  • Global shutter

  • Non-distorting

• Buy portable monitor

• MEF

• Camera driver