2022 - 01 - 25 (Tuesday January 25, 2022)

General Team Status Overview (includes other subteams):

  • General meeting WAS supposed to run last week. Was cancelled last minute. Next general meeting will be on Feb 3, 2022.

  • Drone confirmed flying on pixhawk (insert link).

Discussion topics

(anything team-wide that you want to discuss)


  • Gimbal Task needs to be done and supported in person ASAP.

    • steven when?

  • Verified RC Link using PPM functions. Does push to ESC.

  • Allocation of Resources → what pins are we using on the board?

    • Need to delegate pins that will be used sooner rather than later.

    • Will be more relevant once we port from H7 to F7.

PR’s and Reviews

In Person:

  • Supporting Mech: Gimbal Control (requires in person testing)

  • In Person Testing Continues:

    • PID’s, PPM over radio, ETC

Updates!

(Your own updates)


Attendance:

 

Team Member Updates

  • Anni

    • Continue testing.

    • Done with PPM Driver.

  • Aadi

    • Only transmitting portion of comms left.

    • No data for groundstation to flight controller. Working in one direction right now.

    • PR IS UP (Tonight or Tomorrow). To be reviewed next week

    • needs to validate, has xbees and devboard with him.

  • Aidan

    • Working in the bay

    • Transmitter send signals to ZP using PPM driver that exists in ZP currently.

    • PWM to motor currently in the repo as well. Mapped to servo/esc. Not comp ESC → still needs to be tested.

    • PR For PR Templates. EVERYONE SHOULD TAKE A LOOK.

  • Andre

    • Bootcamp not too bad?

    • Keep going through the same problem where trying to set one pin, but can’t set because it’s being blocked by another pin?

    • Gordon will assist after general meeting

  • Gordon

    • Takeoff/Landing. Looking at good practices.

    • Two pages of considerations

    • Looking at how to go about it.

      • direct to PM, or through Waypoint manager.

      • needs to be able to set const velocity/accel….figuring out how to do that.

    • zp → pm → vtol takeoff/landing

  • Kaveet

    • Busy with orbital.

    • Looking at vectornav. Research and plan soon.

    • Week-Week 1/2 rough draft & PR ready.

    • In waterloo, can get access to devboards.

  • Neha

    • Talked about a gameplan for hover feature.

    • Going to implement it on Saturday along with documentation.

  • Steven

    • Taking a look on weekend.

    • Code doesn’t work with PM restructuring ?

    • Capable of helping with on-campus work. Has no task.

      • willing to pickup gimbal work.

      • Information from leads meeting tonight.

  • Yashraj

    • Working UART Driver.

    • Tested.

    • PR Has been made. Waiting for Sahil to review.

    • going over telemetry manager architecture.

Absent Updates

  • chris chung

    • dshot/crosfire.

    • Update from Aidan B:

      • Crossfire is not needed. Little tangible benefit, PPM works already. UART Needed for Crossfire (currently not wired on safety).

      • DShot for what Chris has to say.

VS Code Dev Containers Task

Current Task Distribution

Name

Task #1 (primary)

Task #2 (secondary)

Name

Task #1 (primary)

Task #2 (secondary)

Anthony Luo

Controls

+ Grabber Control

VectorNav

Dhruv Upadhyay

AM

F7 → H7

Andre Villanueva

Bootcamp

 

Aidan Bowers

Controls & PID Tuning

Be aware of waypoint changes.

Gordon Fountain

Takeoff/Landing (&& Low-to-ground-flight / slew ).

 

Christopher Chung

DShot

BLDC Motor Controller

Neha Srivastava

Hover ( pair w/Steven )

PM & TM Info Update

Steven Gong

PM Re-structure

Hover ( pair w/Neha )

Tony

AM

Gimbal Control

Kaveet

VectorNav

 

Manav

Updating info between PM & TM

 

Yashraj

FW-CV Comms

 

Aadi

XBees

Interchip

Nixon

SD Card Driver

 

Things to look out for!

  • Multiple PR’s up over coming week.

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