2024-11-08 Autonomy Meeting

 Date

Nov 8, 2024

 Participants

  • @Maxwell Lou

  • @Balaji Leninrajan

  • @Jane Zeng

  • @Catherine Jin

  • @Vyomm Khanna

  • @Aleksa Misic

  • @Achita Anantachina

  • @Daniel Akira Suzuki

  • @Aayush Deshpande

  • @Adityya Kaushal

  • @Andrew Shum

  • @Ashish Agrahari

  • @Tochi Okoro

  • @Lucas Liao

 

Announcements

  • Airside system presentation by Xierumeng Nov 9, 2024 at 2:00pm!

Upcoming Flight Tests

  • Nov 10, 2024 Autonomy Houston Test at CIF

    • Testing Geolocation (accuracy test, see if everything works fine)

    • Testing IR camera (data collection)

    • Testing Guided Mode to move the drone

    • Highly encourage everyone to come and see our systems and your code running on the drone!

 Discussion topics

Project

PM

Notes

Project

PM

Notes

Pathing

@Jane Zeng

  • Circle mode will be speedrunning now

  • Waypoint circles is pushed!

  • Achita is working on KML generation, should be up soon

  • How is the path generation going?

  • Water search?

Airside

@Ashish Agrahari

Other Tasks:

  • @Achita Anantachina Classical CV method tests

    • Decided that Achita will improve current CV implementation, by using parts of Nathan’s code

  • @Shahvir Wahab Testing ROS with ardupilot

    • Sync with Eddy and @Tong Zhang about future of ROS

  • @Victor Terme Auto landing module (for task 2)

    • Unassigned

  • @Daniel Wang Detect Target Logging

    • PR is up - logger changes need to be added to main_2024

  • @Andrew Wan @Arjun Sodhi Rudimentary geolocation

  • @Siddh Patel Add a CV detection configuration to detect the IR emitters (brightspots)

    • Waiting for brightspot images

  • @Evan Zhao Setup a communication protocol for sending GPS points

    • Descoped → Moving to enccode/decode messages (floats)

  • @Bruce wang (not sure which bruce wang) Do edge detection of water bucket for task 2

    • Need to reconsider task, as it is related to classical CV code task - make new

    • Changed → Get pictures using CV camera

  • @Leonardo Zhou Detect white

    • Detect white spots in an image

  • @Andrew Wan and @Arjun Sodhi Rudimentary geolocation

    • Working together

  • No updates from @bilal.osman @Daniel Wang @Benson Yan @Davis Liu @sydave @Shahvir Wahab

ML

@Vibhinn Gautam

  • No notes as of now.

IMACS

@Balaji Leninrajan

  • PRs for

    • Create widget to execute terminal scripts

    • Implement UI to change address and port (reviews in progress)

    • Create RTL (Going to be merged soon)

  • All other tasks in progress

Obstacle Avoidance

@Vyomm Khanna

  • Shortened guided mode test script square size, added auto-switch to loiter when script is killed or connection is interupted. Simulated on mp

  • completed decision module logic , working on unit tests.

  • completed unit tests for lidar_parser, and vfh. Working on integration tests for the same.

IR Camera + detection

@Vibhinn Gautam

  • Please find more IR cameras, have a $720 budget sitting around that will expire Dec 20

    • Get a few members tasked on this, we need more people

    • Create decision matrix in confluence

    • 940nm detection

    • Global shutter

    • Non-distorting

  • Buy portable monitor

  • MEF

 Action items

 Decisions