2022-10-12 IMACS Meeting Notes

Tasks to be completed

• Video Link Ordered & Tested (Oct 31, 2022 purchase deadline for cameras)

  • Cameras (CV & Sysint) @Andy Meng @Mika Shaw @R D@Megan Spee

    • CV cam (downwards facing)

      • probably needed for pilot

      • Gimbal?

    • pilot cam

      • Not needed for CV?

  • VTX system (order submitted, unfulfilled) @Anthony Luo

• Ground station hardware (computer, monitor, goggles?, battery backup?) Oct 31, 2022 @Mihir Gupta @Aidan Bowers (Deactivated) @Megan Spee @Anthony Luo

  • Needs to be speced out

• Container for all the hardware is assembled Jan 15, 2023

  • Case for computers & related hardware (1 or two people can carry & set up the system quickly and easily) @Megan Spee (mech?)

    • controllers, laptop, power bar/supply, etc.

• Telemetry up/downlink

  • RFD900 (order submitted, unfulfilled) @Anthony Luo

  • ZP datastream to ground & receive @Yuchen Lin @Aaditya Chaudhary Oct 31, 2022

  • Ground driver for receiver hardware (CV & FW) Nov 30, 2022

    • Driver on PC

    • Hardware connected to PC

      • Tracking antenna connects here

  • Ground driver integrated with GUI Jan 15, 2023 @Mihir Gupta

  • Controller uplink Nov 19, 2022

    • Needs to connect to RFD900 @Andy Meng @Anthony Luo

  • Controllers & RC link purchased (order submitted, unfulfilled) @Anthony Luo

  • Telemetry emulator @Hailey Doleweerd @Christopher Chung (Nov 12, 2022nucleo/arduino prototype?)

    • Perhaps making a PCB for this @Daniel Puratich (Unlicensed) Jan 15, 2023

• GUI

  • Gui Layout Nov 1, 2022

  • Map embed @Mihir Gupta Nov 30, 2022

  • Status outputs (drone information)@Mihir Gupta Nov 30, 2022

    • Attitude indicator

    • Motor output

    • Debug logging

  • Way point inputs@Mihir Gupta Nov 30, 2022

  • Driver integration @Jomills Jose Anand @Mihir Gupta & FW Nov 30, 2022

• Antennas @Megan Spee

  • Antenna tracking @Kevin Huang Jan 15, 2023

  • Antenna mounting Dec 31, 2022

  • How we connect antennas to rest of groundstation Nov 30, 2022

    • connectors, cabling, etc. (COTS preferred?) @Daniel Puratich

Risks

• Hardware that was ordered doesn’t arrive

• Deadlines are missed

Identify components that could fail, and the effects that this has on the rest of the system.

Plz write documentation :)