2024-07-03 Autonomy Meeting

 Date

Jul 3, 2024

 Participants

  • @Tong Zhang

  • @Aaron Wang

  • @Dylan Finlay

  • @Ashish Agrahari

  • @Quan Le

  • @Amy Hu

  • @Balaji Leninrajan

  • @Herman Gahra

  • @Iris Mo

  • @Ivy Ye

  • @Matthew Riley

  • @Maxwell Lou

  • @Sargun Singh Bhatti

  • @Yash Gunturi Eshwara Vidya

  • @Yue Yang

  • @Mihir Gupta

  • @Tochi Okoro

Announcements

  • Fire Pit Social 8pm July 5th Columbia Lake Fire Pit 1

  • MEF proposal coming up

  • Houston Flight Test on Saturday - everyone is welcome to join

  • Come to syncs to get more involved with the team - look at the calendar

  • Taking on a project to remove paper airplanes from E7

  • Code review workshop after the next meeting

 Discussion topics

Project

PM

Notes

Project

PM

Notes

Pathing

@Aaron Wang

  • @Quan Le Integrate common MAVLink to pathing

    • Big task, will take a lot of time

    • @Aaron Wang to break it down into chunks

    • Need to update common, interface missing functions

  • @Chloe Yip QR listener

    • Testing ongoing

  • @Pranav Bommireddipalli research 2023 task 2 solutions

    • Task dropped

    • Good progress, leave the branch for now

  • @Iris Mo Implement 2023 task 1

    • Try to finish tn

  • @Jane Zeng Run MAVLink from csv/text

    • Made module for CSV parser, testing ongoing

    • Documentation coming out tn for decision matrix

  • @Aaron Wang to schedule meeting to go over testing the pathing repo with MP

Airside

@Dylan Finlay

  • Set up Pi 5 - add usage documentation

  • @Dahui Kang cluster estimation

    • In progress

    • Currently blocked by worker management changes

  • @Amy Hu Decision handling in flight interface

    • finished the code but gotta do some more testings and fixes

  • @Mihir Gupta test geolocation

    • Getting ready to FT Geolocation this Saturday.

    • Put up PR to log flight interface

    • Need to put up PR to add logging to geolocation

    • Pulled computer-vision-python on the raspberry pi

    • Still need to run unit tests (before flight tests) but main runs

    • best-2s.pt model on the pi

    • pr to made buad rate configurable

  • @Victor Terme constructor setting verification

    • PR merged. Task complete.

  • @Ashish Agrahari Graceful handling and notification of errors

    • Blocked by Move Worker Management

  • @Ashish Agrahari Research extending Ardupilot with ROS

    • Looking into

  • @Dylan Finlay Modify detect target to be configurable

    • Modified detect target to take both options in

    • ML model works - still debugging classical CV method

  • @Ashish Agrahari Move Worker Management

    • In progress, PR got reviewed

  • main_2023.py deleted @X

ML

@Yash Gunturi Eshwara Vidya

  • @Yash Gunturi Eshwara Vidya deployment on pi and camera

    • Waiting on model to be assessed

  • @Dahui Kang research GNN

    • Will do after finishing airside task

  • @Pranav Bommireddipalli assess model

    • Reassigned if no response by tn

LTE

@Maxwell Lou

  • @Maxwell Lou Refactored socket code for TCP

    • Fixed unit tests

  • @Herman Gahra Create UDP sockets

    • PR Approved and Merged

    • Working on unit tests

IMACS

@Balaji Leninrajan

  • @Tochi Okoro listener for airside logs

    • Waiting for airside to finalized, enough work done for testing

  • @Tochi Okoro widget to display logs

    • Partially working, probably will PR soon but will take time to merge

  • @Sargun Singh Bhatti test serial connection

  • @Sargun Singh Bhatti Create a widget to display drone telemetry data

    • PR approved and merged

  • @Andrew Shum widget to add and queue waypoints

    • No updates

  • Main refactor

    • PR approved and merged

    • @Balaji Leninrajan Widgets and command constructors moved to separate files

      • Done

    • @Balaji Leninrajan Create home screen

      • Done

    • @Ivy Ye Move test to separate files

      • Done

    • @Ivy Ye Move mavlink_communication functions to separate files

      • Done

    • @Balaji Leninrajan Integrated code from “Create a widget to display drone telemetry data” PR

      • Done

Obstacle Avoidance

@Andrew Shum

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 Action items

@Matthew Riley to be assigned task by @Aaron Wang
@Tong Zhang to fix rpi confluence

 Decisions