• Fasteners and everything have been redone and are working well.

• Landing gear is okay, but unideal atm. We will want to redesign at some point, but this is not top of the list.

• No notable damage from flipping is nice?

  • structure is pogging

• Not too many updates because of reading week

• Skeleton dimensions have been updated and current updates can be found here: Skeleton

• Aero-panels are in the works and updates can be found here: Aero-Panels

• Aero-panel mounting is being worked on, updates in Aero-Panel Mounting soon!

• Going to be checking in on all these projects tomorrow at mech meeting

• Going well, no changes withing the scope of this meeing.

• Not much updates, still under R&D

• Tom focusing on Midterm

• Currently in development and documented in the following page: Custom PDB Board - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

• Architecture stage

  • calculating anticipated currents

  • working through block diagram of design

• Anti-spark XT90 connectors.

  • @Nolan Haines timeline currently uncertain

• Diagram so far

  • Added harness symbols

    • using harnessing feature

  • addedsome connectors

  • added RFD900x

  • Would appreciate feedback and pointers to missing components

  • @Michael Botros

  • https://warg.365.altium.com/designs/DAF7FC8D-21F5-45EC-824B-4AC411B97163

Open

• Unchanged from lasting sync.

• 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.

• Neel: Checked conops didn’t see any requirement for Passenger LED at least for scoring points, could still be something we add if we want

  • No requirement for passenger LEDs @Anthony Luo

  • No connection to pixhawk required for led system

  • integrate into end of motor and colors last week

• Neel: No real updates, been really busy with work. Will try to do more this week.

Open

@Farris Matar carried 😎, notes he left:

• Through hole components still need to be soldered on, we also didn’t get the SMD loop testpoints in the order so we’ll need to order those w the next Digikey order

• Quite a few bridges to clean up on some of the ICs

• ESP01F still needs to be ordered in the next aliexpress order and assembled. Some of the pads for it are bridged and will need to be fixed to prevent shorts

  • This isn’t required for EFS to use these boards!!!

• One board is missing an 0603 green LED, 1 got lost while I was placing them

  • We have tons of LEDs in the LED box, should be pre free to find one, idk bout color :d

• Some of the pads for the TX modules may need to be touched up on 1 of the boards
  
  

Mechanically on pause until further notice.

• Slowly going through comments left by Daniel

  • Cleaned up some features on ADC, I2C, added voltage sensing

  • Found problem with RPP calculation, will redo

  • Need to clean up connector schematic pages

• discover compiled BMX160 offical sensor fusion library → currently integrating the driver

• GPS driver test in progress

• verify the actual algorithm math working

• Looked through options for digital video transmission.

  • Best options are LTE or OpenHD.

  • LTE software complexity high, testing limits harsh

  • OpenHD has had issues in the past. Seemed to be hardware issues - will they have been fixed?

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• Questions from xierumeng

  • Drone doing as many laps as it can? What is considered a point where the drone should not fly anymore laps?

    • anni: on the ground at 3v, 90% of capacity used (10% remaining) - subject to change based on drone current draw, or arbitrary % draw

      • daniel: look into ardupilot SoC, the best algorithms for battery SoC require mixing current sense and voltage data, ardupilot may have something thats good,

    • mihir: time (flight window)

    • failsafes? → manual intervention?

    • anni: if drone touches ground not at takeoff point, you lose everything.

• 2023-10-21 Flight Tests

  • tasks are in here

• @Daniel Puratich is letting this rest for a bit

• 2023-10-21 Flight Tests

  • Houston Pilot Training Flight:

    • Provide new pilot @Hardy Yu with flight training time.

    • Houston for pilot training in stabilize mode

  • Pegasus Hover Test:

    • Ensure Pegasus flies without oscillations in stabilize, altitude hold, and position hold flight modes.

    • Pegasus successfully hover and under the control from pilot

  • Houston Autonomy Camera Payload Flight

    • Flight test $200 CV Camera Payload and confirm images look as expected

• @Anthony Luo Wants to update our template for flight tests. Can get BETA x WARG event to cover what they do for testing?

• @Anthony Luo doing presentations

• Getting your TC basic is pre ez RPAS - Basic licencing

  • ctrl+f skills

• Getting your GSO for IPP is easy FPP: GSO Handbook

  • some safety + memorization

  • If you have questions hit up @Anthony Luo

• more people should get trained

  • we need pilots!

  • specifically autonomy and efs members to facilitate testing

• @Anthony Luo will make generic template

  • not to overkill it with rigidity