2021-02-25 Meeting notes

Date

Feb 25, 2021

Goals

  • Weekly updates

  • Flight Test

  • Bay Move?!?!?

  • Co-op Evaluations/Check-In w/ CECA

Discussion topics

Item

Presenter

Notes

Item

Presenter

Notes

Bay Move

 

  • Hopefully we can occupy Rover’s bay

  • Talk to Graeme/Teerststra about this

Electrical

Lucy

  • New breakout boards are in!

  • To be assembled in the bay

Mech

Brielle

  • Grabber has been put on Spike - need to go to the bay to get it to properly fit

    • Currently mounted via bolts (and hot glue)

  • Next Tuesday: Future plane design meeting!!

  • Gimbal parts need to be printed

Firmware

Anthony

  • Excited about the boards!!

  • Nixon moving w/ auto-landing project - vector class being merged

  • Path manager still

  • Telemetry (Gordon)

  • Anthony plans to merge in simulation into CI (Continuous Integration

  • Zeropilot ran FreeRTOS!! Scheduling works (thanks Sahil!!)

  • XBees talk to each other!! (thanks JingTing!!)

CV

Ryan

Ray

  • CV Machine is ready to do CV stuff!! Also reach out to Brielle for the GoPro, she has it

  • CV Bootcamp was cleaned up/nuked/burned

  • Pushing to get the Decklink working

  • Taxi: Training Yolo v5 model for box detection - working, currently working on improving accuracy (80-90% atm for box on simple bg)

Flight Test?

 

  • Objective recall:

    • CV: Collect data

    • Firmware: Go in circles

    • Mech: Pick up box

WEEF Proposal Items

 

  • Current breakout board

  • Board programmers

  • Future Zeropilot Rev 1.5

  • Airframe motors

  • LiDAR?

  • Aim for 7-10k

  • Telemetry stuff (OrangeRX)

  • Sensor (ultrasonic)

  • To add to Google Docs

  • Alex to write proposal/prepare for presentation

Co-op Eval/Check-in

 

  • Nixon/Addesh - bug Anthony/Shrinjray about midterm evaluation/Microsoft Teams check-in w/ CECA

Action items

Decisions