Summary

• Review of 2024-05-07 EE Architecture

• See below run down of all project

• What kind of support is needed?

  • Harnessing

    • we don’t know how to advertise this

  • ee leads add more thoughts here?

Projects

• 48V->12V,8V,5V @ 3A BEC (Buck Converter)

  • todo

    • on routing right now

    • design, test, etc.

  • use case

    • all future vehicles

  • why

    • for reducing the number of power supplies we have on the drone right now

    • simplify all the power harnessing we have

  • who

    • Ishman

  • when

    • Spring 2024 → design

    • Fall 2024 → bringup, flight test end of term

• Next Gen PDB (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

  • todo

    • new pdb

  • why

    • replace off the shelf

  • use case

    • pegasus size

  • timeline

    • no efs lift

    • high risk

    • never

• Smoke Stoppers

  • todo

    • cheaper than COTS efuse board

  • use case

    • ground validation

  • why

  • who

  • timeline

    • no efs lift

    • deprioritize for now

• Sensor Cluster (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

  • todo

    • design board with sensors and a CAN node

  • use case

    • future vehicles

    • want for competition

  • why

    • CAN node for minimal harnessing connection of a lot of sensors to the FC

    • we commonly use these sensors

  • who

    • michael botros

  • timeline

    • Spring 2024 → design

    • Fall 2024 → test, bringup

• ESC CAN Adapter (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

  • todo

    • design

  • use case

    • future vehicles

  • why

    • CAN node for minimal harnessing connection to the FC

    • we need to space out ESCs on larger aircrafts

  • who

    • Meghan Dang

  • timeline

    • this term

• ELRS Gemini Next rev todo

  • todo

    • add buck input stage

    • make the board smaller

  • use case

    • for competition

  • why

    • improved rf link quality

    • doesn't exist commercially

  • who

    • pending assignment

    • running out of people

    • low priority, odes nothing for EFS

  • timeline

    • Spring 2024 → design

    • Fall 2024 → bringup

• LED Board Rev 1

  • todo

    • assemble and use

  • use case

    • for realism points for competition and cool ig posts

    • pegasus

    • future vehicles

  • who

    • Parker

  • timeline

    • rush before competition

    • reasses new features

• ZeroPilot 3.0 Hardware (ZP3HW)

  • todo

    • assemble flight interface board (just assembly)

    • fix oscillator on primary (do not redo design)

  • use case

    • for EFS M2 and beyond ZPSW objectives

    • never be competition viable

  • who

    • unassigned

  • timeline

    • save for fall 2024

• Tracking Antenna Initial Concept W23 (Bring up S24)

  • why

    • for reducing harness count on the antenna head

  • todo

    • combine nathan’s and Michael’s board?

    • best of both worlds

    • needs way to send mavlink wireless

    • needs compass on pcb

    • cheaper arduino

    • fix led (remove LL shifter, use FET or diode)

    • possible power electronics

  • use case

    • comp

  • timeline

    • low priority

• 12S Servo Module

  • todo

    • assemble and test

    • Bring up and Validation S24

    • add CAN support: Servo Module Improvements

  • use case

    • future plane or vtol

  • why

    • for spacing out servos

    • minimizing wire complexity on upcoming airframes

    • more stable power to far away servos

  • who

    • unknown

  • timeline

    • we should make this high priority for VTOL

• ELRS Quadversity

  • todo

    • design

    • test

    • make smaller

    • some efs stuff?

  • use case

    • all future vehicles

  • why

    • improved rf link over gemini

  • who

    • Nolan Haines

  • timeline

    • design end of term

• GPS CAN Adapter (S24, F24)

  • todo

    • make GPS’s work with CAN

    • we could buy gps ones that support it

    • are we capable of doing this sub 20 bucks per board

      • 5 per PCB, 7 per micro, 4 can transciever, 2 ldo

    • big EFS lift

  • use case

    • all future vehicles

  • why

    • allows us to space them more without SI concerns

    • busability

  • who

    • New bootcamper (Omar)

  • timeline

    • S24 design

• Unified Video System

  • todo

    • make video system sit on one panel

      • osd, vtx, mux, possible power supply, just house connectors

    • all one board

  • use case

    • all future vehicles

    • competition air vehicles

  • why

    • improves packaging

    • reduces harnesses

    • reduces emi problems

    • save space

  • timeline

    • Spring 2025 start

    • lower priorty bc no efs

  • who

    • unknown

• 24V->12V,5V @ 2A Buck Converter Board

  • todo

    • none

  • use case

    • for ground validation

    • unlikely to be competition viable

  • why

    • fun

• 12V->5V @ 3A Buck Converter Board

  • todo

    • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2518089733

  • use case

    • for ground validation

    • unlikely to be competition viable

  • why

    • fun

  • who

    • Meghan Dang

  • timeline

    • this term

• https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=EL&title=12S%20High%20Current%20Power%20Module (Done, Spring 2024)

  • todo

    • bringup

    • test

    • test at flight test

  • use case

    • maybe viable for competition

    • needs to offer some improvement on COTS to be viable

    • validate and test our copy of the COTs for now

    • plan for the future here, we need to think of exactly what functionality we want and what’s achievable.

  • why

    • fun

    • might beat COTS (prove plz)

  • timeline

    • unknown

• https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2506883090

  • todo

    • design

  • use case

    • future competition vehicles

  • why

    • for some integration improvement in the future

  • timeline

    • unknown way far out

• https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2120089637

  • todo

    • unknown

  • why

    • for fun

    • never be competition viable

  • timeline

    • none

• https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2115010797

  • use case

    • for ground validation

  • who

    • assigned

  • timeline

    • fall 2024 finish, very unknown

• https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2246017323

  • use case

    • for future vehicles i guess but we dont have any vehicles of this size planned

  • who

    • Tom

  • timeline

    • unknown

• https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2250670083

  • why

    • never be competition viable

    • for fun

  • timeline

    • never

• https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2250866689

  • use case

    • houston

  • why

    • never be competition viable

    • for fun

  • who

    • assigned

  • timeline

    • low priority, could deprioritized

    • no progress recently

• https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2311651382

  • lots of integration overhead

  • who

    • would need to have someone ambitious, shouldnt be pursued for now

  • timeline

    • never no resources