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2023-11-26 Flight Tests

2023-11-26 Flight Tests

Owned by Yuchen Lin
Last updated: 2023-11-26 by Hardy Yu
3 min read

 

Sections for requesting team to fill out:

  • Admin preparation

  • Test Cards / Test Plan

  • Mandatory Attendees

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

Oct 25, 2023

Goal Summary

Houston Autonomy Landing Pad Data Collection

Status?

APPROVED

Desired Airframe

Houston

Desired Date(s)

2023-11-26

Testplan - to be filled out by requesting team

Create ONE table per test-item. Eg: “Landing pad images over asphalt”, “landing pad images over grass”, “landing pad images over grass, high” should all be unique tables.

Use each expand to capture one series of tests, eg “Landing pad detection” or “Auto-tuning”.

Test #1: Landing Pad Automission

Prerequisite

Objective

Knock off Criteria

  • aircraft ready

  • camera mount from mech finished

  • camera focus properly adjuested

  • video logging

  • rpi is at operating tempurature

  • capture more good quality image from the air that will be used for model training

  • run out of batteries

  • autonomy rep call done

Procedure

  1. spreading landing pads to proper locations

  1. initiate camera logging

  1. placing houston onto landing pad

  1. takeoff and hover the drone over the air to take photos of landing pad, controlled manually

  1. takeoff and run auto in mission planner

  1. repeat

 

Prerequisite

Objective

Knock off Criteria

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Procedure

 

 

 

Necessary Preparation

Necessary Preparation

Explain what capacity you need, what needs to be mounted, etc.

Necessary items:

  • Cv camera and power supply securely mounted onto the drone

Flight characteristics needed:

  • Require long flight endurance (needs more batteries)

Comms / Support needed:

  • TBD

Mandatory Attendees

This is a section for all attendees from your subteam which will be present for this flight test. (because they are testing their products, or otherwise)

Name

Phone #

Sub-team

Role

Name

Phone #

Sub-team

Role

 @Hardy Yu

 

 

 GSO FTC

@Yuchen Lin

 

 

PIC

@Amy Hu

 

 

Autonomy rep

Driver

 

 

 

This section and remaining to be filled out by FTC and Flightline Team

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

Date/Time

Action

Notes

Date/Time

Action

Notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEBRIEF

Debrief by @Hardy Yu

 

  • left bay by 1:40 pm

  • finished testing by 2:50 pm

  • @Amy Hu

  • we collected around 900 pictures, tho the number of pictures that contain the landing pad needs to be verified

  • didn’t crash

  • yuchen found the bad harness on the camera connector, we hot glued and fixed it before flight test

  • rpi gave low voltage error

    • but rpi didn’t give up working which is the bright side

    • didn’t change the buck convert that was used from last time

  • sometimes the system doesn’t initiate photo-taking process after powering on

    • we had to check by connecting rpi to computer until seeing it started taking photos, then we proceed the flight

  • no

All of these major issues should be addressed via Root Cause Analysis Forms:

  • @Mihir Gupta @Amy Hu Plz find out why the camera doesn’t auto start after powering, or delegate it to someone else

  • autonomy can start model training with existing photos

  • @Mena Azab @Jerry Tian @Nolan Haines keep working on houston power

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