Ideas

Pending post-mortem, a set of ideas for the program are being added here. Ideas are written down and categorized by subteam.

Lead (@Sahil Kale @Shrinjay Mukherjee )

• Reorg confluence

  • Create sharepoint/google docs for year-specific things?

Business

• News articles

• MERCHHHH

  • Jackets, stickers, water bottles, backpacks

• Posters

• Cash sponsorship run

Mech

• Minidrone (A drone <250g with electronics intended for use with ZP)

• Helicopter

• Test rigs

  • Max height, PID tuning, etc

FW

• Get safety flying

  • ‘Minipix replacement’

• PPM (more generally RC Link) emulator

• ZP nuke-and-restart

  • Aimed at assisting DevOps and making sure we have a place to start

  • Port minipix replacement while being more abstracted.

• VectorNav integration

• TDD & SIL/HIL

• gradually ramp up autopilot reqs && merge them in as stand-alone units.

• Flight tests every week (if possible).

• Two identically specced drones.

  • requires figuring out the parts on current drone, need not be as aggressive with them.

• Testing box with breakouts for probing

• VTX Investigation

• New controllers + Controller batteries (Sorry sahil idt we can go through the computer there’s just too much lag to fly safely).

• Redefine air-air comms properly

• Redefine air-ground comms properly

  • Add high speed telemetry sync.

CV

• Video link experimentation

• Ground station rewrite

• refactor object detection module so doesn't rely on submodules

• 3D computer vision project - TBD

• Build/Find simulation infra to test cv code

• Organize CV confluence

EE

• Communication emulators

  • UART, PPM

• USB-powered adjustable power supplies

  • Useful for powering 12V/24V systems without the need for a full-fledged power supply

• ZP 3.0

• Custom PDB