2021-05-08 - Leads Meeting

Updates

Logo competition
Professor mentors
- Prof Wright → He has storage space on the 4th floor that we can store stuff (dehydrator)
  - WARG organized a side competition with RC Robots (found old docs from 2014)
    - Like a hackathon where students can make autonomous RC cars using WARG hardware to train them on firmware and electrical stuff (promotes WARG and the ECE department)
- Prof Wang → He sees WARG as a learning opportunity. Competition should come second after learning
We can get funding from ECE as we are the only ECE-based design team
Prof. Wright and Prof. Wang want us to do a presentation to introduce the team and update them
- State
- Vision
  - Firmware
    - Expanding portfolio of aircraft and making a ground vehicle (ex. helicopter, quadcopter, etc.)
    - Keeping focus on good design and improve the architecture to increase expandability and portability
    - Custom warg hardware and firmware for RC Robots design competitions
  - Computer Vision
    - Move towards Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
      - Include a mapping system
    - More sophisticated computer vision system that can draw larger, more useful conclusions (context of multiple objects instead of a single object)
  - Mechanical
    - Custom airframe
- Budget → Do this with Saachi
Why WARG died in 2017
- We stretched too thin and had too many projects, resulting in the team fragmenting

Agreed to assign $20 for the logo competition
- Will set up a list of criteria for the logo competition so we don’t get random submissions
During the fall term we will start discussing about possibly reviving the RC Robots competition
When evaluating our visions, see how we can integrate all sub teams so as to prevent fragmentation