2023-07-24 Command & Control Sync

Attendance


In Person:

  • @Megan Spee

  • @Arjun Mandair

  • @Nathan Green

  • @Conall Kingshott

  • @Alison Thompson

  • @Hardy Yu

  • @Yuchen Lin

On-line:

  • @Aidan Bowers (Deactivated)

  • @Arunav Munjal

  • @Christian Aiello

  • @Farris Matar

  • @Mihir Gupta

The Weekly Recap


Flight Tests:

  • Reran landing pad detection

    • purple

New arrivals

Cool things we did

  • ELRS Airport working (very slow though)

 Open action items


 

 Meeting minutes


Tracking Antenna

Tracking Antenna Tower

Mechanical

  • Added 3d printed parts to angle YAGI antennas (25 degrees)

  • angled backplate for patch antenna (25 degrees)

  • Built over the weekend.

  • Only need to finish the backplate for backplate and laser cut lexan rotating platform to house electronics.

    • waterjet not working the past few days. Will be up and running sometime today or tomm.

  • ETA EOW

Tracking Antenna Nucleo Shield

ELECTRICAL

  • Started working on drawing the schematic of the tracking antenna pcb

  • @Yuchen Lin Found out the prototype board he soldered wasn’t really working

  • We are currently making a new one with better planning, more careful soldering, and easier to use

Tracking Antenna Software

Embedded Flight Software

  • Every driver finished

  • Sensor Fusion for BMX160.

  • Need ground testing for decoding MAVLink GPS.

ELRS

Gemini

ELECTRICAL

  • Just started PCB phase

  • Board will likely not be ordered before the end of the term

    • Will need to be tested early next term

  • Boot jumper, UART connection for data.

Integration

  • CRSF from TX16 ↔︎ TX is the same as CRSF from RX ↔︎ FC

    • Will use ELRS as “hop” to Gemini board.

Airport

EMBEDDED FLIGHT SOFTWARE

  • Have figured out how to run their unit test today

  • Looking at implementing the telemetry burst in the airport first

  • If this work, the bandwidth of the airport can potentially double

  • The telemetry burst already existed in the code base but was unused because they think it need more testing and might be unstable

    • potentially range tests….etc.

Ground Station Software

AUTONOMY

Mission Planner

  • Full flight test in simulator on Autonomy Desktop

IMACS

  • Working out details on data telemetry.

    • Working on clean architecture && making FIGMA GUI.

    • Have plan on what needs to be displayed.

Airside Command & Control

LTE Communication

integration

  • Tested @ wrestrc this weekend.

Jetson Autonomy

Autonomy

  • Working on finalizing dronekit python integration into autonomy cv system.

  • Working on getting geolocation module support

  • assigned out QOL tasks to make working on the Jetson easier (during flight tests).

Control Passthrough

Embedded Flight Software

MAVLink

  • Updates here

SBUS

  • Updates here

CRSF?

  • Updates here