2023-10-31 AEAC 2024 Sync

2023-10-31 AEAC 2024 Sync

Attendance

Directors:

  • @Daniel Puratich

Mechanical:

  • @Nathan Green

  • @Georgia Westerlund

Electrical:

  • @Nolan Haines

  • @Michael Botros

Operations

  • @Georgia Westerlund

Embedded Flight Software

  • @Hardy Yu

Autonomy

  • @Aaron Wang

  • @Alex Yang

  • @Arunav Munjal

  • @Mihir Gupta

  • @Tong Zhang

  • @R D (Deactivated)

  • @Amy Hu

Announcements

  • Halloween so kinda ggers on attendance

Systems

Airframe

  • Up to date

  • Aluminum rods holding the top and bottom plate are replaced with peak? ones

  • Pre much unchanged

  • No updates

Payload

  • @Evan Janakievski @Georgia Westerlund

  • Mating issues fixed!

  • Some aero sims on aerodynamic panels in progress (pogress lol)

  • So far nothing has changed since most recent flight test

    • aim for this weekend op flow and lidar

  • Clearance for SMA connectors, should be moved over to make it fit

Aerodynamics

  • all new aero sims are just the panels

  • @Nathan Green looking into doing some with the cabin now for the entire drone, did the entire drone before but without cabin

Sensors

  • op flow and rangefinder

  • spinning Lidar not looking to mount for this weekend, kind of expensive at this point, needs software setup.

PDB

  • @Tom Chiu To add updates!

    • not present gg

  • No Progress.

Harnessing

  • No updates in physical wiring or schematic.

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  • Unassigned.

  • @Nolan Haines @Mena Azab @Michael Botros to assign this at next EE meeting

  • @Neel Patel @Parker Lawrence-Valeriani Please write update!

  • No progress, meetings coming up!

Gemini

  • Ready for firmware for three assembled boards

  • Awaiting

  • EFS people plz write updates!

  • Unknown

  • @Derek Tang PM for this project!

Antenna Tracker

  • Paused.

  • @Nolan Haines @Hardy Yu Please write updates!

  • @Michael Botros starting on project

  • need to start talking about layout

  • connector for cell sense leads

  • @Yuchen Lin Please write updates!

  • Was looking at the pinouts and some new PRs for the repo.

Auto-landing

  • @Mihir Gupta

  • last Saturday flight test fine tuned camera settings

    • ran five flight tests

    • analyzed images

    • chosen the default no filter settings

  • Would like to use this upcoming Saturday for Houston for data collection

    • more flights on Houston to get more pictures!

  • @Aaron Wang

  • MavLink comms merged to main, starting on GUI for the data aggregation

  • @Mihir Gupta @Tong Zhang

  • Will be slowly integrated into RPi on Pegasus

  • Current system is on Houston right now but is platform agnostic

Pathing

  • @Arunav Munjal

  • some assigned task for task two

  • Working on choosing the path which we have been given data to do in advance of competition

Admin Topics

  • @Daniel Puratich

  • We have WRESTRC booked for November 4th do we have anything we wanna test?

  • Houston for autonomy photos

    • More training data

    • already set up

  • Pegasus Sensor Testing

    • op flow

      • needs to be installed

      • requires monster mount installed

        • monster mount design is completed

      • requires wiring (harnessing)

        • should be added to schematic of system

      • software should be plug and play

    • rangefinder

      • needs to be installed

      • requires monster mount installed

        • monster mount design is completed

      • requires wiring (harnessing)

        • should be added to schematic of system

      • software should be plug and play

    • collect gyroscope data

      • reading logs

      • for setting notch filters for noise filters

      • we have to set specific params for this

      • dedicated flight for this

    • ESC Telemetry

      • related to gyro data

      • need to connect a sig & ground to pxihawk from pdb

      • need to do software config

  • Anyone completed the quizzes want to practice flying Houston?

    • Nobody has completed quizes yet!

  • Next steps for Autonomy?

    • We want to collect a lot of images to increase the dataset

    • Get task 2 code for pathing out and then use that in a flight test

    • Main goals for up until end of term

  • 4 vs 6 battery comparison testing

    • We decided can be done later iirc?

    • shouldn’t affect our filtering measurements very much, we can add the batteries for weight into the drone possibly to get it close

  • Announce if we are going to fly such that people can plan their lives

    • We have decided to use our wrestrc time this Saturday

  • @Anthony Luo doing presentations

  • more people should start on the quizes so we can get stick time in! Please come to flight tests!

  • @Anthony Luo

  • No RFCs yet! Ask questions when ready to add to arch doc.

 

 

 

 

 

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