Introduction

Houston

Purpose
- autonomy testing of new software and sensors with the intent of doing high risk tasks prior to executing them on Big Quad 2025 airframe.
Owners
- Assembly & Architecture have been driven by @Daniel Puratich & @Smile Khatri
- Trying to hand off this program to an up and coming FTC but not sure anyone wants it
Hardware Details
- Raspberry Pi
- Autonomy Cameras
- Pixhawk 5X
- M9N GPS

Purpose
- Random University Indoor Requests
  - Including but not limited to
    - removing paper airplanes in E7
    - deep clean of E7 in F24 middle
- Do not use this aircraft for anything else
  - we need to keep it on reserve in case called in for a task
  - often we are being called in on short notice to handle these requests, we need an aircraft on standby here
Owners
- @Daniel Puratich & @Hardy Yu did a ton of development at the start of F24 to get this configured and tuned
- @Smile Khatri as mechanical designer
- @Daniel Puratich piloting for indoor atrium cleaning initially
- @Georgia Vachon Westerlund @Nathan Green coming onboard for mid F24 requirements
Hardware
- Prop Guards
- Pixhawk 6X
- DSHOT ESCs
- EP1 Dual for RC
- M9N GPS

smaller drones are cheaper
- so we can validate more stuff
Smaller drones are good to bring people up on
- need a way to get members involved with making the drones fly
can use cheaper avionics to save cost on these programs
- mavlink over ELRS saves us from needing a telemtry radio

HOUSTON Class Quadcopters
- very detailled user manual for Houston with excellent subpages
Project PHOENIX: Testing Drone
- initial Houston architecture.
- Not fully up to date for this year