2024-05-24 Competition Discussion

Owned by Hardy Yu
Last updated: 2024-05-25 by Daniel Puratich
3 min read

Intro

In-Meeting Aidan Notes ~6pm

Taken by Aidan Bowers.

Review events of the day

  • Whole team was present at tents, as expected for tomorrow

  • Can be no comms between team and flightline, they should be physically separate

    • Can help before / after the start of the flight window

  • Today there was a bit of a rush through the checklists, we did them all but it was tight

    • Some of the checks are now redundant, as we checked them today and the drone will not be changed or move

Plan for task 1 execution

  • Daniel will load barbies

  • Daniel & Yuchen will take the drone to the runway

    • Yuchen will monitor for support, and phone Nathan

    • Daniel will plug in the drone, start lte, and upon confirmation press the safety switch to start the drone

    • Nathan will monitor GCS

  • If we break things, we might want smile on the flight line

    • We aren’t expecting to crash, but we should be ready to repair if needed.

    • We wont swap the flightline team now

  • If there is any issue with being unable to fly all 3 laps, we can RTL to come home early

  • Hardy & Tong will make the flightline box easily available

  • Will run the simulation for the entire flight

Plan for task 2 execution

  • We should keep trying the flights to maximize our potential score - there is a lot of point deductions for errors, and it’s hard to know if we have not made errors until

  • Antenna location:

    • One person will hold the antenna and point it in the direction of the aircraft, and will hold the dvr to make sure the antenna is pointed the right way

  • When people are split the should be on a call

  • We will try C

  • Confirm with judges that we got all the points we wanted

  • Flight Path:

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Questions for organizers

  • Can we recover the drone to try task 2 again without flying back - if we wreck could we fix and try again

  • Can the flightline team change between tasks

  • Where does the flightline start/end, and where can we have equipment

Report

  • There exists a report template

    • We just need to add text

  • The strategy/flight plan is in this document

Evening Notes ~10pm

Taken By Daniel

  • Notes

    • We got permission to park trailer overnight at competition.

    • Still holding roles in mostly.

      • Daniel and Yuchen primarily responsible for handling the drone when on the ground.

      • Hardy (or Smile if swap permissible for Task 1) and Tong share a monitor and manage VTX tower

      • Daniel and Yuchen share a monitor

      • Nathan on the drone always, Yuchen to help with GSO after takeoff.

    • CONOPs change via email at 9pm tonight informs us we have up to 45mins of flight time for task 1.

      • Some brief discussions looks like targeting two flights with two sets of batteries to use the full 45mins to ideally get up to six laps.

      • This will be reviewed with Nathan and rest of team in the morning.

  • Delegations

    • Emma to lead to report effort.

    • Smile to lead printing out battery tools on 3d printer.

    • Smile, Hardy, & Tong to take lead on packing flight test box in morning for task 1

    • Daniel to ask questions to organizers in morning

    • Yuchen to ensure both sets of batteries ready for task 1 tomorrow

    • Nathan to simulate the new task 1 path to ensure encircling waypoint alpha is correct,

    • Smile Nathaniel Evan to ensure brand new set of props is installed on PEgasus.

  • Questions for organizers

    • Can we recover the drone to try task 2 again without flying back?

      • if we wreck on our first attempt, can we fix and try again or are we done for?

    • Can the flight-line team change between tasks?

    • Where does the flight-line start/end, and where can we have equipment?

      • Can we put vtx on area near hanger or away from flight-line a bit.

    • Does switching batteries in task 1 cause us to lose our autonomy points?

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