Attendance

Online:

• Aadi

• Ethan

• Gordon

• Hardy

• Ishman

• Guy

In-Person:

• ayoung

• hardy

• tony

• stanley

• utkarsh

• neha

• yuchen

• aidan

• anni

• mostafa

Meeting recording

Open

PR’s and Reviews

https://github.com/UWARG/ZeroPilot-SW-3/pull/13

https://github.com/UWARG/ZeroPilot-SW-3/pull/11

• This is getting kinda big and I (Gordon) want to merge it soon.

• Not too many blockers from getting this to build

Add clang-format by Aidan-B · Pull Request #9 · UWARG/ZeroPilot-SW-3 (github.com)

• should be merged soon

Add Fixed Manual Controller by Aidan-B · Pull Request #18 · UWARG/ZeroPilot-SW-3 (github.com)

• should be merged soon

Add GlobalFlag Object by Gfcello · Pull Request #17 · UWARG/ZeroPilot-SW-3 (github.com)

• Gordon got bored, will be used for MVP system (Not super urgent yet)

• Read and review if interested in mutexes

Add common datatypes by AadityaChaudhary · Pull Request #15 · UWARG/ZeroPilot-SW-3 (github.com)

• everyone take a look and make comments.

Add zp_assert by Aidan-B · Pull Request #12 · UWARG/ZeroPilot-SW-3 (github.com)

• needs someone to pick this up

Updates this week!

(Updates here → see table of contents for structure)

Empty tasks:

• SBUS

Integration schedule until EOT:

• Los link/actuators tested before then (although school sucks so idk).

• Dec 4, first flight (looking like we’ll miss this)

• Dec 11, first flight (seems reasonable).

• LOS Pos functional somewhere in between.

• Antenna towers functional somewhere in between.

• Dec 18, first flight w/antenna tracking.

ZeroPilot 3

System Manager (Gordon)

• Aiming for a “thing” (not yet MVP) to use for Sunday

  • Mostly dependency work left to integrate AM and LOS

  • PR has updated a lot

  • Fixed many dependencies/CMakeLists

• Ran architecture discussion on Friday, please read if you are unfamiliar

  • We defined the MVP and answered questions

  • Read the notes here: Nov 25 Architecture Meeting

  • Recording here: < @Anthony Luo to put in link >

• MVP by end of term

  • Requires TM and PM methods

• Created thread-safe GlobalFlag object for AM communications

  • PR is up, currently holds a bool, would be easy to make it more generic if we have later uses

• MVP tracking document is up (ty Chris) Fall 2022 MVP Tracking

• Document of post-MVP tasks is still up if people have cool ideas/thoughts.

   

Path Manager (neha)

• for MVP:

  • auto-takeoff & landing

  • general waypoint following (cruise)

  • sunday: want auto-takeoff landing done.

• PM Re Architecture For MVP

Attitude Manager (anni, aidan, jack)

• merged what exists of am into main.

• fixed wing controller was written by aidan. Needs to be looked at.

Telemetry Manager (Aadi)

• All code generation is done

• Need to figure out how LOS Telem and Comms will work (there is a meeting for that sat 10 am i think)

• Inter thread comms

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• AFTER PR: work on xbee driver for los telem

• AFTER PR: potentially write a parser that parses over LCM messages and generates either messages themselves OR just generate helper functions that make LCM stuff work better for us (I prefer this for now)

LOS

• For MVP for end of term, LOS must be complete (including testing)

• Low risk: LOS Link and Actuators

  • Currently being tested

• Low/Medium risk: LOS Link and Comms

  • Should be trivial to implement once the implementation is defined

  • Testing needs to occur after implementation to ensure data can come in and be exposed properly to ZP3 software

• High risk: LOS Pos

  • NEOM8, BMX160, Sensor Fusion must be tested individually THEN integrated

  • Must be compatible to switch between with VN300

• @Guy Blumenthal LOS Actuators:

  • Didn’t get a chance to fix the build issues, got busy with other stuff

  • I don’t think LOS has started being tested either

• @Anthony Bertnyk No updates this week. The existing PR will need to change. Will have a discussion on Saturday.

• @Mostafa Hussein LOS Pos:

• @Christopher Chung LOS Comms:

  • Brainstorming has started with Tony and Aadi on how LOS Comms will expose the incoming data to ZP3 software

  • Meeting planned for 10AM EST to discuss implementation

• @Christopher Chung LOS_Link :

  • Currently being tested by Anni and Kenson

• @Ayoung Eun @Hardy Yu Airspeed & Neo M.8

  • airspeed has data?

• @Stanley Tang VN-300

  • Currently debugging the VN-300 Driver

    • Not a hardware issue

    • @Christopher Chung to look at the driver test code on https://github.com/UWARG/firmware-prototypes/pull/4

  • From Chris: made minor change to VN 300 driver to fix bitwise shifts

Sensors

OFS (guy)

NEO M.8 (HARDY/AYOUNG)

Airspeed (hardy/ayoung)

BMX160 (Mostafa)

Systems Tooling & Infra

Infra + Devops

• meet Hiren k!

Simulator (SIL) @Taim Al-Dabbagh @Mostafa Hussein

• Confluence page now updated with explaination of simulator flowchart and more resources

• Try importing mesh of (current or previous) WARG aircraft into scenario visualization (scenario visualization is what visualizes the flight)

• Create 3D map of competition area using Google Maps and other tools to change enviroment of simulator / scenario visualization

• Playing with Simulink to simulate flight of generic fixed-wing model (trying to figure out force calculations, it spins like crazy in scenario visualization)

HIL (Hardware In the Loop) Controller

• @Jack Greenwood

• Need to set up testing suites.

• Interested in VN300 driver work/testing. Please ping me on PRs/reviews.

• Interested in PDB plans - I know there was a big architecture meeting on Tuesday?? Please ping me.

• Currently working on PPM output

  • Testing reliable solutions.

  • Two timer method working much better.

  • Will send update later tonight or tomorrow morning.

Tracking Antenna (kevin, yuchen)

• Doing research on antennas

• Trying to get a rough draft done for mechanical to look at by this week

• Old Tracking Antenna Project

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Logging

• need logging driver? (LOS Interface)

Priorities next week:

STUCK!

Action Items

Things to look out for!

• New antennas & more rc links.