2024-10-09 EFS Meeting

• Job searching strategy workshop happened on Monday, went super successfully

• @Hardy Yu is thinking of stepping down from efs leads next term

  • We are looking for new lead

  • https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScl3g9h6ECGzn4HfgYfMWBgQP_2IS-OHnS_Kk00rDQMVNCV5Q/viewform?usp=sf_link

  • fill out the form if you are interested

• Not meeting in the reading week and midterm week

  • but feel free to reach out to leads for help

Drivers

• IMU driver - @Kelvin Feng

  • not too many updates

  • new PR to be push tonight

  • still struggling with compilation

• Sensor Fusion - @Polly Liu

  • No update from Polly w/ 6 axis IMU

  • (Liam Suter) starting on 9 axis IMU

• GPS - @Ria Prakash

  • No show, no update

  • Still working on sensor cluster

• Fail-Safe Fix - @Uzayr Hussaini @Andrew Wang

  • No show to meeting

  • Not too much progress according to @Hardy Yu

Attitude Manager @Anthony Luo

• Same as last week. Waiting on sensor fusion and IMU

System Manager @Hardy Yu

• Hardy will try to finish up during the reading week

• Looking for volunteers to help (it's a good idea to join!)

Telemetry Manager @Yarema Dzulynsky

• Not many updates

• @Larry Pan busy with exams, block on critical component

• will be able to working it starting reading week

Path Manager @Ayoung Eun

• Research is in progress Landing / Takeoff Research

• Need a discussion about SF because I have some misunderstanding about it

• Some question for thoughts: Does PM calculate the speed? Or does AM computes the speed

  Should still PM generate waypoints for landing/takeoff? (For cruising state TM generated next waypoints)

Infrastructure

• Compiling @Roni Kant

  • likely easier with the new arch, switching over

  • hooking onto @Derek Tang cmake

• Core Dump @Kabir Verma

  • busy with exams

  • not too much progress

ZP Validation Image

• @Eric Su busy for foreseeable future

• new task assignment?

ESC (Jeffery Zhen)

• wrong pin configured, works on L5 now

• DShot still not working for EE’s board (L4 based)

Servo @Tharun Ganeshram

• still having trouble getting the Pixhawk to send servo data over CAN

• use Saleae to check messages directly on the CAN line (via TX/RX on CAN adapter)

Sensor Cluster @Roni Kant

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LED Board @Folarin Fatola

• Nick still working on AP_Periph

• Test code for flashing LEDs almost finished.

• Anthony got all LEDs flashing on the Neo pixel board except for 1 (that's what we're looking into).

  • According to him, the problem might be that after sending data frames to the neopixels, the signal line goes high instead of low, which isn't supposed to happen.

• @Omer Sajid and Jermey connected with @Roni Kant

• Testing env setup properly

• Simulation worked once, never worked again (unhealthy AHRS - EKF being sus?)

• Part 1 videos are up

• Part 2 coming soon

• PMs please find out the availability of your team. Let @Derek Tang know and we will officially start tasks (finally)