2025-01-27 EFS Meeting

• Please fill out the W25 Team Roster if you haven’t yet this term: https://forms.office.com/r/ka0MJHJQ9D

• Please fill out the leadership interest form if you would like to become a lead starting S25:

• https://forms.office.com/r/gXEh9z4fgu

• Lots of people interested in EFS social (16). Need to find location big enough.

• Competition interest form https://forms.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=h1o6cprzIkqSRz_CQMATlohH8WBFXHtOjCR7Pcx0oF1UQzFXMFFCSU4xNk5LUTc4RVZMNkRYOEZSTS4u last chance!

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

M1 Drivers Ethan Leung

• Message Queue Dami Peng

• Motor Channel (PWM) Bill Lu

  • Met issue when trying to control the servo

• RC Receiver Chandise Anderson

• Watchdog Ronald You

  • New abstraction done. PR pending approval.

• SD Card Ari Van Cruyningen

M2/3/4 Drivers

• RFD900 Aditya Bang

• IMU + AHRS Liam Suter Kelvin Feng Richard Dong

• 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

• Failsafe Raiyan Samin

• Arm / Disarm Raiyan Samin

System Manager Manasva Katyal

• RC Passthrough Sreya Roy Chowdhury

• Kick Watchdog Sreya Roy Chowdhury

Infrastructure Thuvaragan Prathifkumar

ZP Board Validation Ari Van Cruyningen

LED Board Nick ArmstrongTochi 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 MaAndrew Wang

Baud Rate Auto Sensing Teighan Miller

Sensor Cluster

• Barometer

  • On pause until EE gets board

• IMU

  • Paused until ZP driver

• Lidar Aidan Fisher

• Magnetometer Henry Wu

• PixArt OFS

  • Paused until EE board

• Radar Henry Wu

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 Interface

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

Drone Tuning (+1-2) (IMU peeps taking a look)

• Learn to configure ArduPilot controls, and stabilize competition drone

• Good introduction to controls

  • Configure noise filters for sensors

  • Tune PIDs

  • Observe flight tests and make adjustments

• Excellent opportunity if you want to go to competition