Ground Communication: Iteration 2

Owned by Shrinjay Mukherjee, created
2021-08-06
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Objective

Produce a block diagram of a new communication system between all systems onboard the aircraft and our ground computer.

Due date

Aug 18, 2021 

Key outcomes

  • Verify the feasibility of using OpenHD.

  • Design an architecture for data to flow b/w flight controller, CV computer (Jetson) and Raspberry Pi (Communications computer running OpenHD).

Status

In Progress

Problem Statement

Current communications system is excessively complex with two seperate streams for video and data. Can this be combined into one system using OpenHD? How can this be made fault-tolerant?

Milestones and deadlines

Milestone

Owner

Deadline

Status

Milestone

Owner

Deadline

Status

Mechanical Team approval for OpenHD

@Brielle Chenier

Jul 29

Approved

Firmware approval for OpenHD

@Dhruv Rawat

Jul 29

Approved

CV approval for OpenHD

@Shrinjay Mukherjee

Jul 29

Approved

Electrical approval for OpenHD

@Lance Bantoto (Deactivated)

Undetermined

not started

High level architecture of data flow, data merging and possible backups between three computers

@Lucas Wiecek

Aug 17

in progress

Implementation details of OpenHD communication system

@Lucas Wiecek

Undetermined

not started

Integration into overall CV system block diagram

@Shrinjay Mukherjee

Aug 18

not started

Reference materials

Documentation

Subject-Matter Experts

  • Current telemetery system, ground-side: @Bassel Al Omari , Andrew Zhao

  • Current telemetry system, air-side: @Jingting Liu (FW team)

  • Current video transmission system: @Anthony Berbari (Deactivated) (Former Team Chief)

  • OpenHD: Ryan (@R D on discord)