2024-09-27 Autonomy Meeting

 Date

Sep 27, 2024

 Participants

  • @Ashish Agrahari

  • @Maxwell Lou

  • @Vibhinn Gautam

  • @Akshay Satish

  • @Georgia Vachon Westerlund

  • @Daniel Puratich

  • @Balaji Leninrajan

  • @Andrew Shum

  • @Krish Patel

  • @Ohm Patel

  • Many more people weren't added here, gg

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Announcements

Upcoming Flight Tests

  • Sep 28, 2024 Houston test for Obstacle Avoidance

    • The new Rpi connection issues with pixhawk

  • Oct 5, 2024 Run the Autonomy system on Pegasus 2 as proof of concept

    • Most likely running something passive like geolocation

    • Or flying towards red balloons

  • Competition Task 1 flight test on Oct 26, 2024

 Discussion topics

Project

PM

Notes

Project

PM

Notes

Pathing

@Jane Zeng

  • @Jane Zeng Created tasks for comp task 1

    • Generate waypoints task unblock by making width/area a parameter

Airside

@Ashish Agrahari

  • @Dahui Kang Cluster estimation

    • Needs to be reassigned and basically restarted

  • @Amy Hu Decision handling to flight interface worker

    • Done

  • @Herman Gahra Decision Worker

    • No updates - Re-review?

  • @Andrew Shum Reinstall OS on Rpi

    • In progress, needs to solve some errors - pixhawk connection issue

  • @Iris Mo Profile Performance

    • Starting task, needs refresher on what the task is

  • @Siddh Patel Merge log files

    • In progress

  • @Krish Kochar Fix show-annotated feature

    • No updates

  • @Karthigan Uthayan Autonomous landing module

    • No updates, might need to reassign

  • @Aleksa Misic Add class names to objectInWorld

    • PR is up, Tong will review it

  • @Ashish Agrahari Research ardupilot with ROS

    • To reassign task and let somebody else learn about ROS

  • @Ashish Agrahari Created tasks for comp

  • @Dylan Finlay Implement CV

    • Need to reassign to finish up task- CRITICAL

    • Create a draft PR

ML

@Vibhinn Gautam

  • @Aniket Srinivasan Ashok research ongoing

IMACS

@Balaji Leninrajan

  • @Sargun Singh Bhatti Create widget to execute scripts

    • In progress, PR likely by next week

  • @Andrew Wan Create button for RTL

    • Command constructor and tests done

    • Work on widget started

  • @Tochi Okoro Create controller for creating and configuring SITL

    • In progress

  • @Daniel Wang Create navbar

    • In progress

Obstacle Avoidance

@Vyomm Khanna

  • Flight testing this weekend to collect data.

  • Researching path deflection algorithms - decided on Vector Field Histogram for obstacle avoidance.

  • Starting implementation

IR Camera + detection

@Vibhinn Gautam

  • Ordered IR filter, IR lens + CV camera cable

  • Sponsored IR camera maybe?

    • email sent

 Action items

@Herman Gahra Re-review
@Dylan Finlay Create PR
Task for changing this CV method to detect any color rather than just blue
Add shahvir to confluence and assign ROS
Assign Alex Liu to Camera IMACS task

 Decisions