See: 2023-09-24 Conops Brief #1

Overview

TODO

$600+tax registration fee

$300+tax per person RIP

Important dates

TODO it’s paragraph 6

Requirements

Advanced RPAS licence

Flight termination system

Arm button

15kg limit

Electric

Others?

Non task

Proposal

Different from last competitions: Trying to sell the product (how the system will be used).

Presentation

Sales pitch but with evolution of proposal to final design (see Table 2 criteria for more detail).

• We got 1st last year by following the rubric, let’s keep it up!

Realism

Objective scoring

Meets requirements (seats, windows, etc.).

Subjective scoring

Willingness of passengers to get in

• LMFAO

• Coffin design :)

Coolness

Streamlined (smooth and logical experience for passengers)

Tasks

5 person flightline crew

Scoring

Everyone’s so bad at being on time they actually put points on arriving 30 minutes before flight window .

Normal organization stuff (teamwork, vehicle easy to assemble/modify, checklists).

Task 1

Load 4 barbenheimers and cargo (500g total, 4 boxes, see paragraph 18 for dimensions and detail)

Takeoff speedrun to 1st waypoint

• Altitude 200m (!)

Endurance run laps between ends of runway

• Altitude up to us

Land at same point as takeoff (LAND ANYWHERE ELSE IS BASICALLY FAILURE)

Scoring

Speedrun

Endurance

WE ARE SCORED ON WEIGHT AAAAAA

Autonomy: Ez clap

Landing: Landing gear go brrr

Passengers and cargo secure: Just jam them in np

Task 2

Load barbierians and their boxes of rocks. Do the Annex C waypoints near the building with landing pads and then land at intended landing pad.

• No diversion LFG!!!

• Communicate events with the given callsign

• Callsign given on Friday

Have 1 minute landing window (can land any other time, just lose points)

• So we want to arrive early and then wait a bit before landing

• Landing window given on Friday

Scoring

Waypoints: Ez clap

Autonomy: Clustering obsoleted RIP (still useful though)

Landing:

• LZ Null: Too easy

• LZ A: Like last competition

• LZ B: Wall is close

• LZ C: Wall AND ceiling is close

• How fat is drone?

• How accurate is GPS (wall clonk)

Timing: 1 minute window, ±5 minutes (linearly decrease max to 0 the further away it is).

DO NOT ASK UNLESS ROUNDING IS CONFIRMED: How will the time be rounded to the 30 second increments? For example:

• Away from the landing time window: 31 seconds early/late is the same as 60 seconds early/late.

• Towards the landing time window: 31 seconds early/late is the same as 30 seconds early/late.

• To the nearest increment: Which way is 15 seconds early rounded if this is the case? Which way is 15 seconds late rounded?

• Something else?

Post flight report

90 minutes after task 2 flight window

Let’s get the cover page and task description banged out before competition

Task 1 results written on Saturday evening

Then we can spend all 90 minutes on task 2