2023-11-12 Flight Tests

Owned by Hardy Yu
2023-11-09
2 min read

Sections for requesting team to fill out:

  • Admin preparation

Sections for flight test coordinator to fill out:

  • Flightline team

  • Location

  • Status

  • Drone

Sections for flightline team to fill out:

 

Admin Preparation

Your status should read “submitted” when you submit the FTR to our Flight Test Coordinator.

Once the coordinator approves, and a date/location/drone has been assigned, the status will change to “waiting for sub team review”. Once all sub-teams have reviewed and signed off, the status will change to “approved”

Requested By

@Hardy Yu

Sub-Team Review

(To be checked once reviewed by sub-team representative)

Mechanical
Electrical
EFS
Autonomy
Operations

Date of Request

Nov 9, 2023

Goal Summary

4 vs 6 lipo battery endurance & Autonomy Data Collection w/ Houston

Status?

APPROVED

Desired Airframe

Houston / Pegasus

Desired Date(s)

2023-11-12

Testplan - to be filled out by requesting team

Flight Test Location: 43°28'23.4"N 80°34'01.8"W

 

Test #1: 6 Lipo Batteries Test

Prerequisite

Objective

Knock off Criteria

  • telem logging is working

  • batteries charged

  • battery monitor correctly configured

  • get the data of how long Pegasus could fly w/ 6 lipo

  • When battery drop down to 10% - 20%

  • get data

Procedure

  1. set an autonomous mission to command drone suspend in the air at desired spot in Mission Planner

  1. takeoff drone in auto

  1. wait and navigate the condition of battery health

  1. RTL

Test #2: 4 Lipo Batteries Test

Prerequisite

Objective

Knock off Criteria

  • telem logging is working

  • batteries charged

  • get the data of how long Pegasus could fly w/ 4 lipo batteries

  • When battery drop down to 10% - 20%

  • get data

Procedure

  1. set an autonomous mission to command drone suspend in the air at desired spot in Mission Planner

  1. takeoff drone in auto

  1. wait and navigate the condition of battery health

  1. RTL

Test #1: Data Collection

Prerequisite

Objective

Knock off Criteria

  • camera focus correctly adjusted

  • RaspberryPi correctly configured

  • rpi & camera mounted on Houston

  • Collect more landing pad imaged recorded from drone pov for autonomy landing pad detection algorithm training

  • autonomy call end of day

  • run out of time/batteries

Procedure

 1. Place landing pad

 2. mission planning

 3. turn on rpi/camera

  1. run automission

Necessary Preparation

Necessary items:

  • N/A

Flight characteristics needed:

  • Require long flight endurance (needs more batteries)

Comms / Support needed:

  • TBD

Mandatory Attendees

Name

Phone #

Sub-team

Role

Name

Phone #

Sub-team

Role

 @Hardy Yu

 

 

 GSO FTC

@Yuchen Lin

 

 

PIC

@Mihir Gupta

 

 

Autonomy Rep

@Daniel Puratich

 

 

FTL

[ required ]

 

 

Driver

Flightline Team

Name

Phone #

Role

Reason

Name

Phone #

Role

Reason

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pre-Flight Preparation

Checklists

Incident Procedures

Flight Test Timeline

Date/Time

Action

Notes

Date/Time

Action

Notes

10:00 am

Arrive @ WARG Bay

 

11:00 am

Briefing

 

11:15 am

Arrival at Flight Test Location

 

11:15 - 12: 00

Run Pegasus 6 battery test

 

 12:05 pm

One group of ppl return to Bay charging batteries

 

 12:05 pm

Autonomy flight group run Houston Landing Recording

 

13:20 pm

Battery charging group return to flight test location

 

 13:25 - 14: 30 pm

Run Pegasus 4 battery test

 

 15: 00pm

 debrief / data analysis / food

 

DEBRIEF