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• @Daniel Puratich

• @Anthony Luo

• @Alison Thompson

• @Conall Kingshott

• @Tong Zhang

• @Yuchen Lin

• @Georgia Westerlund

• @Daniel Puratich

• 2023-11-12 Flight Tests

• 2023-11-11 Flight Tests

  • Anni did cool test cards for this one!

• Lots of things weren’t setup before this flight test!

• Pegasus Bullet Connectors

  • Some bullet connectors failed pre light pull tests

    • Solder connection is still fine but the wire is breaking?

      • We should inspect further to see if the wire is breaking

    • May be worth reflowing all of them?

      • There’s a lot of them

    • Should ping in more EE people who were there during assembly

      • @Nathan Green @Neel Patel @Taim Al-Dabbagh

      • see if there are more info on how assembly went

    • Crimping instead of soldering

      • PP45s may not fit in the tubes, too large for the tubes possibly

      • If MT30 is in the tube the PP45s could go on the outside

      • ESCs are reversible, could do MT30s on both sides?

        • may be software reversible, always hardware solder bridge reversible

  • Some of insulation rubbed off on tubes in arms

    • looks like the M5 threads rubbed against it

    • could add Teflon tape on the threads

      • should be an easy fix

    • shoulder bolts

      • would require custom ones to work for our application

      • may be worth looking in to but unlikely

    • Can we test for these being an issue in advance?

    • Issue could be due to when inserting bolts or sliding wires and not in flight issue-

  • Recommend Service Level Inspection once a month - continue flying once fix is in

  • bolts are coated with black oxide

  • Wires are currently the exact length they need to be (ideal for weight?)

    • may be under tension when connected on both ends is pulling wires closer to bolts. Could be part of the issue.

    • leaving more slack will make things easier

  • Could cut into pwr cable

    • three conductors

    • may be worth looking in to

Open

• We should be uploading flight logs and linking in debrief

  • controller and ardu

  • elrs should run off telem port to get logs

  • For Nov 11th the logs somehow got wiped off the SD card

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• @Anthony Luo

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  • two or three people

  • @Daniel Puratich to deal with this

• @Conall Kingshott @Nathan Green @Jonathan Di Giorgio

• Clamping leg blocks have been installed on the drone

• @Alison Thompson @Evan Janakievski @Georgia Westerlund

• Rev one is done on PDM and working on being manufactured

  • need to order resin and CF from Composites Canada.

  • ran out of resin on battery shrouds layup

  • Alison emailing with Graeme on this with what we need to buy and what we can use from composites room

    • may need to buy other stuffs from Composites Canada

• Working on fleshing out tasks for integrating doors and windows, etc.

  • for next rev of Cabin

  • initially no doors, no windows, just to test flight characteristics

  • Graeme said good to use router for Cabin layups

• @Andy Zhang @Conall Kingshott @Alison Thompson

• Battery shrouds exist

  • CF layup last Saturday on Aluminum mold

• May make another one if we have time

  • current one is light and flexible

  • E3 waterjet is broken so we have to wait for cutting it

• @Smile Khatri @Mena Azab (Deactivated)

• some updates but Smile not here

• @Nathan Green @Georgia Westerlund @Megan Spee

• no updates

• @Anthony Luo

• @Nathan Green tested Lidar

• May be worth Houston flight of the lidar

  • dont conflict with autonomy stuff

• Would be a good test of does it worky

  • good test for new pilots

• @Tom Chiu

• Working on component selection.

• @Michael Botros @Mena Azab (Deactivated) @Nolan Haines

• (No Updates)

• @Michael Botros @Mena Azab (Deactivated) @Nolan Haines

• Has been delegated to @Anthony Zhelnakov .

• @Mena Azab (Deactivated)

• Arm cable issue from flight test

  • discussed above

• Possible switch to Anderson Powerpoles connectors?

• Make quick repair for this weekend, then by Dec 2nd have a more final fix

• @Neel Patel @Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

• Working on component selection and schematic

• Lotta discussion last sync

• Goal is to finalize stuff before december

• Perform testing before holidays hit mid december

• @Farris Matar @Daniel Puratich @Anthony Luo

• few solder touchups

• Schematic

• @Derek Tang @Anthony Luo

• was pin configuration issue

• got all the chips talking to each other

• @Conall Kingshott @Nathan Green

• Paused.

• @Nolan Haines @Hardy Yu @Michael Botros

• Schematic is close to being finished for voltage sensing. @Michael Botros

• SD Card and shield connectors @Hardy Yu

  • connection to Nucleon is remaining bit

• Overcurrent protection @Nolan Haines

• Goal to have board schematic done before exam season.

• Last EE meeting this was discussed in detail

• @Yuchen Lin @Stanley Tang

• Bmx driver in testing

  • since use a lot of external library no unit testing

• Mavlink message decoder

• Looking into new GPS

  • email to vector nav to ask them

  • we have a vn300 which can supplement the neom8 and x

  • EFS is looking into comparing chips for INS

  • VN-200 is cheaper and smaller

  • VN does the sensor fusion for you

  • using our objectively worse system may be easier for us?

• @Alex Yang @Amy Hu

• Fixed file directory pathing issue issue from last week’s flight test

• @Tong Zhang

• Detect target worker, implementing decision handling, implementing flight interface

  • no PRs open yet, but hopefully soon

• @Arunav Munjal

• Creating a path on WRESTRC

  • not this weekend, but possibly next weekend could be tested

• implementing hard and soft limits and going around waypoints

• @Smile Khatri

• Houston camera mounting was suboptimal

• Getting it fixed, some design progress

• May be worth ordering another camera because we only have one

  • could wait for MEF bc it’s mostly autonomy funding

  • do we like the current camera?

    • there’s not a lot of options for global shutter cameras for our use case

      • light

    • purpling is not a huge deal as long as camera still worky

    • there are cheaper variants of the carrier board for this same camera

      • may have diff mounting holes, but may be easy to accomodate

  • Is there anything else that’s one of one that everything is contingent on?

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• @Hardy Yu @Rosanne Zhu

• Testing Goals beofre end of term

  • end to end sensors

    • Gemini

    • Video over LTE

    • Calibrate Opflow

      • should be quick

    • Rangefinder

      • was tested already

    • Dual GPS

      • configured and functions

  • Four vs Six Batteries test

    • requires doing autotune

• Nov 18th

  • no peggy stuff

  • Yuchen and Hardy autotuning

  • Could be used for Pegasus four vs six batteries?

    • don’t rush autotune with Pegasus

    • take more time to get drone in a good state before doing this

  • Last flight test Houston was not successfully completed

  • Do every axis on Houston before Pegasus

    • roll is most difficult

    • battery issues for autotune last week

    • we dont have enough Houston batteries

      • this will gate us

• Nov 19th

  • Autonomy photo data acquisition day for Houston

  • no peggy

  • Hardy or Yuchen

• Upcoming weekend dates

  • will plan as we get closer

  • Nov 25th

    • Open House will have most people busy?

    • Want drone at open house to show it?

    • open house is for incoming applicants

  • Nov 26th

  • Dec 2nd

  • Dec 3rd

  • No more weekends this term due to finals hitting

• @Anthony Luo

• Please start on the quizzes and then ask for stick time so we can get you up to speed!

• Please come to flight tests to learn how we run them!

• @Anthony Luo

• in ok state

• will make RFC for all changes eventually

• @Megan Spee @Anthony Luo @Daniel Puratich @Georgia Westerlund

• Anni will popoff tmrw on it

  • formally schedule this as a work session and get other people grinding together

• Georgia popping off on it rn :pog:

• Deadline Jan 15th

• people will enjoy life over holidays