2023-07-24 Command & Control Sync
Meeting overview
Meeting to discuss state of groundstation Command & Control Equipment:
Tracking antenna
ELRS Gemini
Groundstation Software
Airside software
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