7/6/2021

Owned by Lance Bantoto (Deactivated)
2021-08-06
1 min read

Member

Updates

Action Items

Member

Updates

Action Items

@Avani Joshi

  • Studied up on how a BLDC motor works and different ways to control it

  • Learned about various configurations for a BLDC motor

  • Document research on motor control

  • Learn more about BLDC circuitry

@Jason Skells

  • Looked at the frequencies for plane control and video transmission - going to format better and make a clearer list of pros and cons

  • Info on the different types of antennas that we can/might use.

  • Do a comparison/benchmarking of our radio system to the DJI Lightbridge

  • Find out what the current radio system is composed of

@Kevin Li

  • Selecting remaining components for the buck converter schematic

  • Expected completion for the buck converter schematic: July 7th, 2021 (Wednesday)

@Kiran Surendran

  • Compared the main STM32 H7 microcontroller families + lined up some specifications we need to determine to make a decision

  • Figure out the required specs, and start deeply comparing H7 processors

  • Start looking into safety MCU replacement + CV compute (NVIDIA Jetson)?

@Lance Bantoto (Deactivated)

  • Project management

  • Help Kevin with his buck converter PCB

 

@Muhammad Tanveer

  • Looked into configurations, advantages, and disadvantages of different kind of battery packs

  • Looked into how a BMS works, specifically how SOC is calculated/estimated

  • Do further research on how BMS is applied in the real world, specifically in drones/aircrafts.