2022 - 03 - 22 (Tuesday March 22, 2022)

General Team Status Overview (includes other subteams):

  • Drone blew up in testing. Will require coordination from Mech to create proper harness.

PR’s and Reviews

Updates!

(Updates here → see table of contents for structure)

In Person:

  • Test continues

Attendance:

 

Team Member Updates

Anni

  • Working on IMU Driver and SD card issues.

  • IMU not verified :(((.

    • To try

      • confirm i2c waveform/triggering (maybe I just messed something up).

      • Try using SPI

  • MPU 6050 seems to work over i2c, not sure why bmx does not work.

 

Aidan

  • Discussed DShot validation with Chris

  • Will be testing DShot and helping with IMU testing, PPM hardfault

 

Chris

  • Discussed DShot testing, fixing bugs, etc. with implementation

  • Decided to update buffer when set function is called, use same buffer value until new value is set

  • New changes pushed, goal to get all four motors working at the same time

  • Discussed interchip architecture, implementation with Steven

  • Have a plan/timeline - expect to have PR done by end of March

Gordon

  • Waiting on Path Manager for Takeoff/Landing Implementation

 

Steven

  • Had good discussion with Steven regarding DMA

  • Looked through different implementations of DMA

  • Will be talking with Aadi about how to test Interchip

Tony

  • Issues with Comms Testing - weren’t able to get Jetson to send UART messages

  • CV has some debug solutions, will be testing again Thursday

  • Some changes to UART driver - concern regarding interrupt blocking code/execution won’t be an issue

 

 

Absent Updates

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

PM Restructure

PM & TM Info Update

Steven Gong

Interchip

 

Tony

AM

Gimbal Control

Kaveet

VectorNav

 

Manav

PM Restructure

 

Yashraj

FW-CV Comms

 

Aadi

XBees

Interchip

Nixon

SD Card Driver

 

Things to look out for!

  • Flight by eow 2 march.

GITHUB RESTRUCTURE

Please leave info below so we can add you to zeropilot team.

Name

GitHub Username

Email

Name

GitHub Username

Email

Aidan Bowers

Aidan-B

abowers@uwaterloo.ca

Anthony Luo

antholuo

a26luo@uwaterloo.ca

Yashraj Nagpal

YashrajN

y2nagpal@uwaterloo.ca

Christopher Chung

Chrisc110

tps90067@gmail.com

Kaveet Grewal

kgrewal26

kaveetgrewal@gmail.com

Manav Patel

manav2002

pmanav2002@gmail.com