2020-12-10 Meeting notes

Flight test post-mortem

Lucy

• Both Spike and Icarus crashed

• Spike wings are broken, fixable but for now we’ll use one of our 2 available spares

• Overall Sahil is getting more comfortable with Spike!

Firmware

Avani/Laye

Aadi/Sahil/Dhruv

SD Card Driver

• Header files done based on Lucy’s .hpp altimeter and IMU files

• They have questions!

Aadi pushed PPM code

Sahil worked on PWM

TODO: SPI stuff for Interchip

Computer Vision

Shrinjay

Aryan

• Will not use LIDAR bc not cost or weight efficient (it is allowed though)

  • ~1000$ for 200m range, heavy SSD LIDAR

• Plan is to re-implement old system but better

  • Will rely on a bunch of trig

  • Partially implemented

• YOLO-V2 Model is working w/ the help of an online repo!

  • TargetAnalyzer Class should be done by tonight

• Still need to look for tent pictures

  • They need to be diverse with different angles, sizes, with different extra items, etc.

  • example of a good dataset: raccoon_dataset/images at master · experiencor/raccoon_dataset

Co-op Student Update

Anthony, Lucy

• Lucy to get certs needed to be co-op advisor

• Anthony to write up job descriptions