2023 Competition Roadmap

Owned by Aidan Bowers (Deactivated), created
Last updated: 2022-12-03 by Megan Spee
1 min read

Integration Owner(s)

Teams

Project Owners

Contributors

Stakeholders

Objective

Due Date

 Problem Statement

Competition Details Here:

National Annual UAS Student Competition - Aerial Evolution Association of Canada

Project Details

 

 Timeline

May2022JunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan2023FebMarAprMay
Electrical
Firmware
Mechanical
Computer Vision

 Milestones and deadlines

Milestone

Owner

Deadline

Status

Milestone

Owner

Deadline

Status

Competition

 

May 5, 2023

 

Competition Simulation

 

Feb 18, 2023

 

Shortlist Flight team picked

 

Nov 26, 2022

 

Frame ready

 

 

 

Groundstation ready

 

 

MVP ZP software

 

 

 

Basic characterization of air frame

 

Feb 12, 2023

 

Projects above integrated

 

Feb 12, 2023

 

Competition Simulation 2

  • Advanced RPAS trained pilots

  • Flight practice for pilots (on comp airframe)

  • Full system integrated (final airframe, zp3 hw & sw, jetson & cv, planning algorithms, all comms)

  • Automation pipelines

    • waypoints for flight

    • calculating flight plan & emailing

    • rerouting around restricted airspace

  • Flight checklists

    • Emergency procedures

  • Flight line team finalized with flight

  • Flight line team with pilots licenses

    • basic at minimum, preferably advanced

  • Regulatory compliance

 

Apr 8, 2023

 

Phase 1 Design proposal

 

Jan 15, 2023

 

Team Roster

 

Mar 31, 2023

 

Proof of Flight

 

Apr 11, 2023

 

Registration

 

Nov 28, 2022

Done

Groundstation Complete

 

Jan 31, 2023

 

Zero Pilot 3 Assembly

 

Jan 15, 2023

 

ZeroPilot Interface Board

 

Jan 15, 2023

 

SW on ZP3

 

Jan 29, 2023

 

ZeroPilot SW Maiden Flight (AM + SM + LOS for fixed wing teleop flight)

 

Nov 26, 2022

 

Prototype airframe v1

 

Nov 6, 2022

 

Prototype airframe v2

 

Nov 26, 2022

 

PDB Complete

 

Mar 1, 2023

 

MVP all systems for flyable ZP SW system (All other subsystems for quad gps and fixed wing manual flight)

 

Dec 31, 2022

 

Auto Landing (landing pad detection, ZP command)

 

 

 

Jetson to ZP communication (Attitude data, aircraft command)

 

Jan 31, 2023

 

Path planning

 

 

Finalized Frame Design

 

Dec 6, 2022

 

Prototype frame based on final design

 

Dec 31, 2022

 

Final Frame Assembled

 

Jan 29, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 Reference materials