2025-01-27 EFS Meeting

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• Firmware Jobs & Interview Workshop this Tuesday (tmrw) 8-9:30pm in E7 4417 and online

M1 Drivers @Ethan Leung

• Message Queue @Dami Peng

  • Header done

  • Starting the implementation

• Motor Channel (PWM) @Bill Lu

  • Met issue when trying to control the servo

  • Mostly there

• RC Receiver @Chandise Anderson

  • Finished code, going to submit PR

• Watchdog @Ronald You

  • New abstraction done. PR pending approval.

• SD Card @Ari Van Cruyningen

  • Submitted PR, just need to test it

M2/3/4 Drivers

• RFD900 @Aditya Bang

  • Configured and connected, having trouble sending messages

• IMU + AHRS @Liam Suter @Kelvin Feng @Richard Dong

  • Accelerometer looks fine

  • Gyroscope oscillating, might have been causing getting yaw data

  • Trying to mitigate oscillation

  • Then working on implementing filter

• GPS @Ria Prakash @Ronak Patel

  • Been reading through the data sheet

  • The output given by the module looks good

  • Will be implementing later this week

• CRSF @Uzayr Hussaini

  • Check on progress, might move to another task as we might not use CRSF driver

Attitude Manager @Ayoung Eun

• 1-to-1 Motor Output @Ayoung Eun

  • Made tweaks based on your comments left on Ayush’s commit. However, I do have some questions.

• Failsafe @Raiyan Samin

  • Waiting on PR

• Arm / Disarm @Raiyan Samin

  • Waiting on PR

System Manager @Manasva Katyal

• RC Passthrough @Sreya Roy Chowdhury

  • Took a look, open to continue though the PR, comments to be reviewed

  • Changing to push to AM queue instead of SM queue

• Kick Watchdog @Sreya Roy Chowdhury

  • To be done but easy

Infrastructure @Thuvaragan Prathifkumar

• Meeting with Derek today

ZP Board Validation @Ari Van Cruyningen

• Started communicating with the ZP board

• IO and PWM timer pins done

• SPI, UART, I2C next

• Putting together a validation image

LED Board @Nick Armstrong@Tochi Okoro @Billy Karantzoulis

• Worked on implementing the central node election algorithm

• Billy joined the team and is taking a look at writing Ardupilot-side scripts in Lua to generate CAN messages with info like altitude, speed, etc

• Tochi and I are still looking into what she wants to work on

Servo @Hardy Yu @Allan Su @Ethan Leung

• Onboarded both Allan and Ethan on this project

• Not much has been done so far, we are a little blocked by the hardware

  • single servo drive pcbs are missing plz let us know if anyone has seen it

  • 6s servo module rev2 is currently undergoing its assembly

  • maybe we could use 6s servo module rev1 for now or just focus on the software

6s Power Module @Bryan Ma@Aditya Sharma @Andrew Wang

• Small edits made in 6S Power Module

  • Link to project repo now on doc

  • Link to Battery Monitoring Circuit datasheet added

  • Link to EE Altium design added (for those with access to it)

• Tried to flash an empty program (for the 2^nd time) onto the 6S Power Module Hardware, but without success

  • STM32CubeIDE could not detect any targets

  • Suspecting debug cable might be cut open while the connector was being shaved

  • This was working during the 1^st time when no connectors were shaved

Baud Rate Auto Sensing @Teighan Miller

• Code to test and detect common Baud Rates is written.

• Next steps are to test the code on a board to see if it's working properly.

• Working on learning how the CAN Bus connects to the Nucleo Board

Sensor Cluster

• Barometer

  • On pause until EE gets board

• IMU

  • Paused until ZP driver

• Lidar @Aidan Fisher

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• Magnetometer @Henry Wu

  • getting CAN transaction to and from ArduPilot

  • code refactoring and pushing code to Github

  • turning magnetometer in ArduPilot (Magfit?)

• PixArt OFS

  • Paused until EE board

• Radar @Henry Wu

  • driver doesn’t look too difficult to setup

  • look at example code

Tracking Antenna @Larry Pan @Jackie Yi

• We were trying to parse the bytes that were dumped from last semester, but pymavlink is not parsing properly.

• Probably because the bytes were in decimal and not hex

• Just got hex data from simulation, will work to get hex from the drone soon.

ZP Message Queue Header

https://github.com/UWARG/efs-zeropilot-3.5b/pull/17

ZP SM RC Passthrough

https://github.com/UWARG/efs-zeropilot-3.5b/pull/15

ZP AM 1-to-1 Motor Mapping

https://github.com/UWARG/efs-zeropilot-3.5b/pull/13