2024-03-07 EE Meeting

Meeting times:

  • EE Meeting: Thursdays 8 PM EST E5 1006

  • Leads Meeting: Tuesday 6 PM EST E5 2004

  • Team Competition Aircraft Sync (AEAC): Monday 7 PM EST E7 4043

 

Attendance:

In person

Online

In person

Online

  • @Neel Patel

  • @Anthony Zhelnakov

  •  

  • Allan Liu

  • @Ishman Mann

  • @Mostafa Hussein

  • @Nolan Haines

  • @Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

  • @Ryan Scomazzon

  • @Mena Azab

 

Quick Links:

Updates this week!

Announcements/General updates

 

 

Active PCB Projects

High Current Power Module (Taim)

  • @Taim Al-Dabbagh

Battery Elimination Circuit

  • @Ishman Mann

narrowed down to buck converters or buck controllers

  • Should take 1 or 2 weeks

would be nice to have guidance on LTSpice

12S ESC (Mena)

  • @Mena Azab

    • Still wrapping head around what was previously accomplished by Ethan and Chris.

    • Have more time now to put towards this

6S ESC (Rayyan, Mostafa)

  • @Rayyan Mahmood @Mostafa Hussein

  • Updated inductor component in the buck schematic, need to re-pick the resistors and caps to be 0603 instead of 0805

LED Controller (Neel, Parker)

  • @Neel Patel @Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

  • Incorrect pinout on board has been identified

  • Newer revision (1.1) will correct this issue and others (header, and various minor issues)

  • Parker will start the revision this weekend

PDB (Tom)

  • @Tom Chiu

  • Half-way through switching controller (external FETs) selection to compare with switching regulator (internal FETs).

  • Have a general sense of the pros and cons of each, just need to have a discussion on which is most important for the drone.

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Michael)

  • @Nolan Haines @Hardy Yu @Michael Botros

  • Final Stages need to Schedule Review

ZP3 Rework (Anthony, Ryan)

  • @Anthony Zhelnakov @Ryan Scomazzon

  • Just Routing Altium not being fun

Capacitor Analysis for Drone (Anthony)

  • @Anthony Zhelnakov

  • Done the analytic part

  • Measure current values and compare to analyctic and make conclusions

 

 

CAN Interface Board (Hardy)

  • @Hardy Yu

  • Has been scoped requirments

  • Want something working like a can hub

  • Waiting for review on architecture document

 

Drone Harness (Neel)

  • @Neel Patel

  • Need to shorten power harness on Pegasus

    • @Anthony Zhelnakov Has made harness, need to adjust size to preference

  • Houston wiring needs to be cleaned up

  • Make VTX harnessing better ie. less janky

  • Make Harnessing Diagrams

    • Altium

 

Redundent Diversity Gemini ELRS , RF project

  • @Nolan Haines

  • Still working on it

Flight Test

Flight test on Sunday determined by weather, Time 2:00pm

New Projects

Project

Link

Description

Needs Assessment

Project

Link

Description

Needs Assessment

Houston harness schematic

Houston: Configuration

Draw houston schematic from scratch.

We want a schematic for all possible power + sensor harnesses so that we can quickly build/grab harness for flight test

Wiring is too messy as of Feb 13, 2024.

Also sensor harness is gonna be different for different flight tests

 

Pegasus harness schematic

https://warg.365.altium.com/designs/EE4130C4-749C-446F-8B89-B208A6919071

reorganize into hierarchical structure (see 12S servo module example)

Label length, color, wire gauge

the schematic as of now is a bit hard to read

12S ESC

12S ESC

Mena needs help ;d

see confluence page

CAN Interface

CAN Sensor Interface Brainstorming

see confluence page

see confluence page

ICM 42688 breakout

Could get fancy using CAN bus w/it later but for now just breaking out SPI, and maybe having an onboard voltage regulator or smth (better perf).

EFS is looking to move from bmx160's to ICM 42688's . These are used commonly on all sorts of drones and fc's (probaly the most popular drone IMU being sold new right now). They're about 2$ for a chip, can be pick/placed by JLCPCB, but the eval kits are 58$.

Smoke stopper

https://www.amazon.ca/VIFLY-ShortSaver-Electronic-Short-Circuit-Overload/dp/B088TVVNVM/ref=asc_df_B088TVVNVM

Analog design.

Switch between different efuses (e.g. 1A, 2A, 3A)

The board limits current flowing through when we run the motor test. It protects downstream electronic devices. It also prevents drawing too much current from the batteries.

 

leads need to decide whether we want a MCU on the PCB

5V-24V Boost

Boost Converter

See confluence page for details

we want output to be adjustable, so boost chip has to handle voltages 12V, 18V, 24V. It is even better if it can also handle other voltages in between 5V and 24V

should also bypass 5V

See confluence page