We’re happy to have you on board as our new Embedded Flight Software Co-op! To aid your first few days here at WARG, we have created a startup guide that you can refer to to see what your project will be, key contacts, and some steps you’ll have to take.
These are your day to day contacts:
Mentor: Derek Tang Roni Kant
Your mentor is responsible for guiding you throughout your co-op (e.g. daily syncs)
Manager: Derek Tang
Your manager is responsible for the administrative aspects of your co-op (e.g. evaluations)
Additionally, feel free to contact the WARG leadership at any time if there are any issues that cannot be resolved through your co-op manager: Lead List
Subteam leads: Derek Tang Roni Kant
Subteam leads are responsible for the subteam you are part of
Directors: Daniel Puratich Georgia Westerlund Nathan Green
Directors are responsible for the overall operation of WARG
Safety captain: Yuchen Lin
The safety captain is responsible for everyone’s safety
WARG’s purpose is to:
Enable UW students to learn about and develop innovative new aerial robotic solutions through collaboration and non classroom instruction
Expose UW students to engineering challenges, such as mechanical, electrical, and controls
Expose UW students to organizational procedure, such as project management, documentation, finance, fundraising, and marketing
Provide UW students the opportunity to work with academic and industry professionals advising WARG
See more about the team's philosophy in our team charter: Team Charter
To meet these objectives, we compete annually in the AEAC student competition. For the most recent competition in 2024 May, we developed project Pegasus, a quadcopter aircraft.
The Embedded Flight Software subteam is responsible for communication and data pipelines across both the drone and groundside systems. For the W25 term, we are focusing on our CAN ecosystem and groundside platforms. By developing CAN QoL improvements and integrating our tracking antenna, you will make our solutions more robust and adaptable to an ever changing competition environment.
Please complete the all of the following:
To start the safety training:
Go to UW LEARN
At the top, click Self Registration
Find and click the course name
Click Register
Once enrolled, you can find the course again on the home page under All
WARG uses Discord as the primary means of communication.
ZeroPilot
Complete and validate milestone 1 drivers before integrating in an RTOS environment. The goal is to produce software which can fly a fixed wing plane by the end of the term, validating milestone 1.
Tracking Antenna
Debug current communication issues with the tracking antenna and integrate a magnetometer. The goal is to create a competition ready package in preparation for AEAC 2025.
CAN Infrastructure
Develop a CAN based bootloader and enable dynamic node id allocation. The goal is to simplify how we work with all of our CAN architecture, especially as we add more and more CAN based devices.
What do all the acronyms mean? Check it out here: https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/l/cp/D2oP5Vjw
Subteam pages: https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ZP