Planning
Scope
Houston
Tracking Antenna
Will test pitch and yaw. Validated prior to 2024-11-16 test, but pushed back to this test
Autonomy Testing
Cluster Estimation
Image collection with manually set camera settings
Pegasus 2
New landing gear test
Alison Thompson to monitor and update status
Pilot training
Flight Cards
Flight Card 1
Tracking Antenna Test
Pilot:
GSO:
What is being tested? To be filled out by flight card requesters Omer Sajid Jeremy Zheng
Connection between TA and Mission Planner (MavProxy MavLink Forwarding)
Setup OTA link on Houston with RFD
Fly in 180° arc around TA (only testing Yaw tracking capability)
Fly from TA Height to about 20 feet in the air (Pitch tracking capability)
Fly in 180° arc around TA while varying drone elevation level (Testing Pitch and Yaw tracking capability)
If needed, possible Procedure is listed below (same as a past flight test)
Hardware to be installed, items to bring, batteries, etc (change status to success when installed or plan for installing at flight test is done)
Tracking Antenna
Tp-link Router
RFD
Houston Drone
WARG Laptop
Batteries: 3 3s batteries
One for Houston, one for tracking antenna, one just in case
TRACKING ANTENNA TEST PROCEDURE (HOUSTON) | ||
Procedure | Goals / Objectives | Knockoff criteria |
| LINK TO DOCUMENTATION FOR SETUP | |
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| < list of reasons why you would want to stop the test > |
Move in periodic squares moving away from the tracking antenna. |
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Flight Card
Pegasus 2 New Landing Gear Validation
Pilot:
GSO:
What is being tested? To be filled out by flight card requesters
Hardware to be installed, items to bring, batteries, etc (change status to success when installed or plan for installing at flight test is done)
Batteries: 4 or 8 6s batteries
PEGASUS 2 | ||
Procedure | Goals / Objectives | Knockoff criteria |
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< list of reasons why you would want to stop the test > | ||
Timeline ~ Pending
Daniel Puratich requested earlier flight test
Attendees
Key People Not Attending
If you’re directly involved in this stuff and cannot make this test please note it here. All onsite FTCs and subteam leads should fill this out please.
Debrief
Flight Card 1
Recap
Good
Bad
Flight Card 2
Recap
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Bad