Document structure proposal: https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/l/cp/ouA1b08i

Need to determine which sub-teams are responsible for each section

Need to determine due dates to keep us on track: (try and complete before christmas break)

• Skeleton/outline - due October 1st (?)

• Draft - due early/mid November (nov 6th ish)

• Review - due early December (dec 6th ish)

• Final - due January 15th

Generally on track, no significant changes of note.

Mech to look at reducing weight, but those reductions will be limited

• Baseframe + Motors (carbon fiber, aluminum, 3d printed stuff, motors, PDB, ESC, Wiring) 4.2 kg

• ~1.5kg of electronics so far no jetson/rpi/gemini/payload/radios

• Batteries @ 850g each → 6 batteries -> 9.2kg total drone (5.1 kg of which is batteries)

• no cabin, no jetson/rpi/gemini/payload/radios

Weight is a problem

• 15kg limit per comp but we aim to be much below this

• Mech looking at weight reduction

• 8 kg goal, 10kg abs max is everything included (including barbies)

  • if we exceed this it will be problems :d

Once flight tests need to decide 4 or 6 batteries and ensure we get flight time we want.

Some ideas/inspo:

Open

Open

The first design seems really simple to integrate onto the current air-frame and very manufacturable.

We have some ideas to allow it to be pretty easy to iterate on the wall shape (ie flat, curved, etc.) according to aero sims + testing. We would like to have “hot-swap” aero components so we can get something easy done quickly, then work on more advanced stuff in parallel with other subteams' use of the drone

A few ways cargo could be integrated, cargo compartment below passenger compartment (maybe stairs somehow a part of this??) or behind like the first image. Could also sell this as a “safety” feature?

Curved thin polycarb or something similar is easy to do for windows and looks pretty cool

3 Face curved CF plate (2D) - Needs a glass fiber fold for reusability

PLA Hinge/clips to secure the plates

• Version 1 - clips between top and bot plate using the square cutouts

• Open

  

• Version 2 - full custom push clip solution - more ridged but might block batteries depending on the config (4 in X will be fine, 6 maybe not)

• Open

  

• Finalizing the CAD and fitting, will get them printed in BLACK

• The pieces will be epoxied to the CF Plate

• Open

  

  Scaled down a version to 66%, its weaker but way smaller (3g per connector vs 10g)

• Final decisions still need to be made

CF plate research still needs to be done

Negative CAD mold not complete yet - But it should be quick

Started looking at Ansys Fluent simulation

Planning to run simulations on the drone in the next two weeks

Starting in a new software, could try stripping some things down

Critical for flight and will go on drone:

• 2x GPS

• 1x OFS

• 1x Lidar (downward facing)

Omnidirectional object sensing/detection

• 4x unidirectional lidar vs 1x rpa1

  • rpa1 heavier

  • unidirection

    • tfmini

    • 45 deg from each other

  • plz write constraints, plz dont change them after

  • below is diagram for unidirectional ones

  • Open

    

     

• Used for landing near those shipping containers at comp

@Anthony Luo is going to research and make this decision by the end of this weekend and will make a document. Will ask for review on Sunday.

On pace for Spin up this upcoming Saturday.

Battery Harness + ESC + Motors + PDB + FC + Power monitor are wired and tested.

Diagram status

• Have the components we are flying been determined/confirmed?

• Current diagram could go in Arch doc? Maybe too much of a sketch?

• Altium is started.

• @Michael Botros is doing Altium currently.

• Up to what we’re going to have wired up for this weekend should be ready for review by this weekend.

Anyone interested in bulk capacitance?

Where, how many, MPN, why?

Ping @Daniel Puratich if u wanna do this, I can provide some details.

Lighting for the drone

Nav lights and position lights

Regulator requirements for light flying

LED ws2812 (neopixel) solid boards being looked at

• https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/datasheets/WS2812.pdf

Sync between EFS and EE team

Could give realism

@Farris Matar (Deactivated) has ordered the required components.

https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1155994338581565450

3 week shipping + 1 week assembly estimated

COTs Gemini exists now but it kind of sucks compared to what we designed but it is an option if ours is a challenge

• Ours is a lot better

EFS, led by @Aaditya Chaudhary (Deactivated) , should be ready to flash by assembly

EFS meeting today to sync on COTs stuff

Currently undergoing small revisions. Will start ordering components shortly

We were having trouble with gear compatibility but we are confident we found compatible gears

Working on redesigning the Yaw Servo Mount to withstand a higher load and reduce wobbliness. Manufacture out of Aluminum.

• Will undergo review tomorrow

Next steps consist of creating the electrical mounts and weatherproofing

List of Electrical Components (Tracking Antenna Status & Mechanical/Electrical Components )

• EE please take a look and add any other electrical components I’ve missed to the document attached above

• What size battery? → 5/6s (old comp drone batteries?)

  • bake in as much flexibility as you can

• I know that we used a perf board on wiring the components together for the first revision. How will we be connecting them moving forward?

Where are we stationed with respect to the map? I am trying to figure out if infinite rotation is necessary

• No infinite rotation needed

@Nolan Haines & @Nolan Haines Leading the nucleo shield project

• Tracking Antenna Nucleo Shield Design

• How to use the Tracking Antenna Prototype Board

• Tracking Antenna Initial Concept W23

• Link something to Sysint

• Should be starting layout soon?

@Daniel Puratich Battery info:

• Size for our large 6S we use for flight

• Should be less than that but we need to test to figure it out

• Size big for now and leave flexibility

No slip ring for first version

Perf board is for EFS prototype

Most components selected, moving onto schematic phase

still some minor features like rpp need to be selected

• Reverse Polarity Protection Circuits

@Hardy Yu Doing a fun low voltage LED

@Daniel Puratich Supporting any circuits questions for this project

Possibly bring in another EE to help with the components here!

@Yuchen Lin Driving this.

one last try on BMX160 software (due next week)

• if not working will find a off the shelf solution asap and replace the bmx160 system

• VN-300 or some other cots sensor.

starting tracking antenna software integration next week

Just received objects that will need to be detected on the ground

Plan on training a new model for the upcoming competition

Working on command output to flight controller and polling if a mission is completed.

Need to discuss decision model. Will be simplified.

We have it working by using a USB-TTL cable

Working on purchasing another USB-TTL cable for Autonomy Airside

Reading through documentation and figuring out how we can pass data to groundside to the airside system

Scoped out how we want the system to run

• Will define the system more and assign a PM to this task in a future meeting this week

Scoped out how we want the system to run

• Should be very similar to what we did in the Summer term

• Flight test this weekend to test out the code we worked on in the summer

  • Will validate that we can successfully upload mission to the drone.

• Will define the system more and assign a PM to this task in a future meeting this week

Done

Super pog EE team

We have lots of people done but we haven't gotten interface for booking yet

Can run in 1401 for small spin up

• or bay with everyone out lol

@Hardy Yu Running this for September 30th

Need to check emails if we have this