W25 Startup Guide - Ari

Owned by Derek Tang
Last updated: yesterday at 19:09 by Ari Van Cruyningen
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Welcome to WARG

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.

Contact information

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 Vachon 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

About WARG

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.

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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.

Administrative tasks

Pre 1st day tasks

Safety training

Please complete the all of the following:

SO1001 Employee Safety Orientation
SO1081 Workplace Violence Awareness
WHMIS 2015 (you do not need to complete this if you have the Workplace Hazardous Materials milestone on your UW transcript)
SO1010 Laboratory Safety

To start the safety training:

  1. Go to UW LEARN

  2. At the top, click Self Registration

  3. Find and click the course name

  4. Click Register

  5. Once enrolled, you can find the course again on the home page under All

Join Discord

WARG uses Discord as the primary means of communication.

Please follow steps 1-6 to join our Discord and introduce yourself: Bootcamper Onboarding

1st day tasks

WARG bay

Meet with your co-op mentor and manager
Tour the WARG bay
Get the bay code

Scheduling

Schedule your daily sync time with your co-op mentor
Confirm which meetings you are required to attend: Calendar

Accounts

Join additional sites and accounts
Github
Confluence
Asana

Bootcamp

1st week tasks

Onboarding

Project

Project

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.

Useful links

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