Fasteners all need to be done properly with Loctite and washers.

Currently it’s more of a test fit, there will be a session to get it put together formally

@Conall Kingshott is going to try to lead getting this done with team this week!

Moving to new documentation system to help alleviate integration hell

• If you have opinions please give it as requirements as soon as possible

Questions and Answers from Comp Organizers (screenshotted from our email into Discord)

@Alison Thompson

Design is underway!

Skeleton has had its first few revisions: Skeleton

• See update in Skeleton from 2023/10/05 re: cargo-bay:

  • unless strong opposition it will be behind the passenger cabin to make the drone shorter.

• This is a big decision and should be discuss!

  • Where should cargo bay be?

    • Seems like not a lot of opinions here so will progress! This is a big decision here

  • Current though process is:

    • We don’t want a taller cabin. Doing a shorter one and having it a bit longer

    • Shorter drone for easier landing

    • more structurally sound

    • more

    • drone is 422 x 422 mm diameter so “it should all fit underneath the hex middle of drone”

    • Please add into arch doc before RFC is enabled

Mounting of aero-panels and design of aero-panels is in progress,

• Will check in @ mech meeting on Wednesday

“on hold” over reading week. no progress (school term people on this study go brrrr)

This includes side panels, clamping blocks, etc.

low priority task, plan is coming along, not urgent!

In mech comp frame 2024 chat

Will get put into documentation decision stuff, pog

CFD workshop this Thursday

@Megan Spee @Smile Khatri running workshop

Aero sims on cabin once design is released

Anyone should attend, see #announcements and gcal

@Anthony Luo to do procurement, selection completed and reviewed

Decision: Type of Rangefinder for Obstacle Detection

@Tom Chiu Is testing one for EFS (not AEAC 2024 comp related)

there’s kind of nothing that falls under this to remove cateogry in the future.

Currently in development and documented in the following page: Custom PDB Board Confluence

Aims to have similar if not better specs than the current PDB (especially in part choices so far), with the inclusion of current and voltage sensing signal outputs.

• Essentially this board is meant to combine the PM02 power module and the PDB distribution board which currently are two off the shelf cots solutions

Thoughts on integrating this into testing and being used in the coming competition cycle, a deadline imposed onto the project for it to make it on time, and what other features would be desirable within reason, if any?

@Tom Chiu ending for rough draft by end of week

@Daniel Puratich Deadline for usage on comp drone:

• If board is tested on the ground and meets design requirements (being it combines two COTs boards, is electrically equivalent or better, and lighter and smaller than both those cots boards combined) by end of finals this term F23

• Then we can test it W24 in flight testing (and gives time for mech to make a case). If it meets all requirements (specifically reliability) then we will use it at competition.

• @Anthony Luo @Tom Chiu agree this is reasonable

No updates on wiring diagram in past week

@Daniel Puratich left a few notes

@Daniel Puratich requesting addition of anti-spark XT90 connectors Anti-Spark Connector Standards with @Nolan Haines

@Michael Botros Will add connectors to diagram

Currently all components that are on the comp drone are in the diagram

Get into arch doc before RFC enabled.

Still needs to be delegated out.

Have a few people who are nearly done with bootcamp that could be assigned to this.

What we have on drone right now is at least in the ballpark, but we do want to calculate eventually.

2023-10-10 LED Controller Sync - Meetings - WARG (atlassian.net)

@Anthony Luo the 360 can be satisfied with multiple separate lights

@Anthony Luo please follow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation_light#

• Beacon light is for ground crew

• Navigation light is for when you’re in the air

@R D (Deactivated) there’s a lot of different colors here so it may be hard to get orientation

• @Anthony Luo they’re blinking at different rates and patterns so it’s not that bad

@Neel Patel Initial Layout drawing below

• What is missing/needs to be moved?

Confirm the board will receive no signals and only control aspect is strobing/blinking LEDS?

• @Daniel Puratich current architecture is no pixhawk comms to LEDs. only way to turn LEDs off completely is to pull the power

Will 4 corner LEDs be blinking?

• Answerred

Will we need a green LED for PAX?

• PAX is for passengers on board

• @Neel Patel to read conops and bring up at next meeting

• if this is true we need some control

Slight modification to timelines:

• Architecture plans for next week. (research and decisions)

• Order components first week of November.

• Full working prototype for end of November.

• @Neel Patel will be gone all of december

• @Parker Lawrence-Valeriani will be out right after exams.

Assembly tomorrow afternoon led by @Farris Matar

Shouldn't be a big challenge, but EFS has someone assigned to it, plz updates

Electrical Components Confluence: Tracking Antenna Status & Mechanical/Electrical Components

• If anything changes please ping @Arjun Mandair

• We talked about a seperate video and telemetry tower

TLDR:

• Two Antenna Trackers

  • One for RC

  • One for Video

Started Electrical Mounting in mcad

Created Connection Diagram

• @Daniel Puratich plus respect for the beautiful diagram

Buck converter Mount is to be modified

• @Daniel Puratich Thermal Guidelines

Nucleo mount is valid for prototype and perf board. Will be redesigned upon SHIELD/HAT completion

Created 6S battery mount

• With holes underneath to drain water

• might do velcro

• review with mech team soon!

Mounting To-Do:

• BMX 160 | BMX 160 Datasheet

• TBS M8.2

• RC and Video Components

• Nucleo

  • How to use the Tracking Antenna Prototype Board

• NOTE: We are not using RFD900. Are we using XBEE?

  • Discussed above, essentially both

Finished new servo mount design

just electrical mounts remaining!

Wrapped up to schematic phase and moving onto the layout phase

Sync on Monday about general placement of LEDs, bucks, etc, size of board

Shield has a lot to go @Daniel Puratich estimates end of term

no major update, development in the right track

@Yuchen Lin no updates.

Working on driver for the magnetometer for calibration. need to find better way to calibrate

@Daniel Puratich look into ardupilot compass calibration!!

@Alex Yang PM

Not a lot goin on, image capture and verification task gg

• Coordinating with some onsiters to get this done

@R D (Deactivated) the plan is to finalize camera setting by end of month (22nd) then collect landing pad images for rest of term.

Integrated sensor data into system!

@Tong Zhang PM

Ardupilot stuff can be received.

Goal is get geolocation integrated ASAP!

Completed and tested.

@Mihir Gupta compiling document to test comms between ground station to drone,

havent tested rfds and xbees

FTDI cable ordered.

Tested LTE and physical comms and they work

ELRS no work

still scoping out how to transmit images and LTE

need a sync for decisions on this

@Mihir Gupta

decided no jetson on drone

remove this category

Need to create tasks for this, have a PM, need to add tasks into Asana

@Arunav Munjal PM, also doing sim with realflight

Done for existing system and ground validation complete

@Daniel Puratich Robohub director did not respond to my email, need to follow up!

Robohub isn't that useful for our testing, may let it go.

planning on tubie zp3sw flight and peggy hover

weather questionable

no wrestrc

few people around due to reading week

We have wrestrc for 21st if it needs to be scrubbed

auto wants to flight test camera with updated settings at this test ASAP, would be a Houston flight

• @Alex Yang looking into camera on houston? possibly ready for the 14th, will aim for it, if it slips keep us posted

@Anthony Luo doing presentations

more people should get trained, we need pilots!

enable RFC system later next week, maybe Monday evening