LTE

Possibly move airside system to ground station.

• How is airside system interfacing with LTE on ground?

  • MAVLink

  • $200 CV camera video

  • Pilot camera

• How is LTE interfacing with sensors and flight controller on drone?

Is this what we want to do?

Do we want to work on both Jetson and LTE simultaneously?

• Yes, until decision made to use which system.

Task 2 landing

Camera mounting: Possibly at an angle?

• More work for mechanical subteam

• Must think about how drone will physically approach landing pad

Dead reckoning landing?

• Once see the landing pad and calculate its position, order drone to blindly land there (no corrections on the way)

Task 1 waypoints

End conditions:

• Battery low

  • Might be automatic by the flight controller (automatic RTL)

• Timeout

  • Probably ground station (poll time until over, send stop command)

  • Soft timeout: Finish lap, then RTL

  • Hard timeout: RTL immediately (drop the current lap)

• Maximum number of laps

  • Probably not, we want to keep going until we hit a different limit

What kind of lap route (e.g. radius of turn)? Back and forth straight line?

Projects

Airside system

• Cluster estimation simplified

  • Max 4 landing pads

• Landing pad choice also simplified

  • Pick the landing pad closest to the expected location

• Search: Modified to avoid collision

  • What happens if drone is ordered to position inside obstacle and rangefinder stop it?

    • Movement will fail

    • Just be above everything?

      • What about LZ C which is under?

Pathing

• Task 1 end conditions

  • How to RTL?

• Determine task 1 lap path

• Rename waypoint names and hardcode them

• Delete QR parsing and hardcode:

  • Task 1: input = ["1A", "1B", "1C", ...]

  • Task 2: 2A, 2B, etc.

IMACS 2.0

• Low priority

ML model

• AEAC organizers to finalize landing pad upwards face

• Which camera will be used for competition?

• Are we using Roboflow again?

  • Training data parameters (changing saturation, hue, brightness by how much?)

• Hopefully $200 CV camera images are better than FPV camera images for training

• Camera calibration

  • Purple?

LTE communication

• @Nathan Green Owner

  • Will write documentation

• Autonomy: Project manager to integrate with rest of system

Obstacle avoidance

• Discuss with Directors before starting

Project managers

• For another meeting