Attendance

Introduction

Water controller
- POR assembly this weekend/ as soon as boards come in
- no firmware required
Water controller Rev 2
- Making a rev 2 to add extra output if we need to use solenoid
- Targeting design done end of week - discuss purpose of this?
- does this also need to be assembled asap? should the bringup of this board next term be very high priority?
LED REV 4
- POR early next term
  - do we have a deadline for bringup for this? if not, when?
Tracking antenna controller rev2
- POR assembly early next term
Unified VTX
- POR sometime next term
- components ordered
- @Tom Chiu will be onsite to drive this
- is this still viable for comp 2025?
Single servo driver - handed off for firmware
Pi interface rev c
- halfway through routing
- on track - end of term
- SIM card holder out of stock - looking into alternatives
- Discuss comp priority?

Should we make any changes to this list? No deadlines as of rn besides water controller being ready for Dec 14th FT.

harness for RPi has been completed and handed off to autonomy for further testing
- details: copied from Jerry’s discord message:
  - the raspberry pie system is ready for ground test. There are 3 cables to the RPi Rev B PCB, the UART kill switch cable is plugged in but the other two cables were not plugged in. xt30 power cable is straightforward, just connect the female connector to the male connector on the pcb. For the telemetry cable, unplug cable in the pixhawk telem3 port rn and plug the one coming from rpi in Uart killswitch cable is connected to pixhawk io pwm port 8. I think I told you yesterday, but I didn't include any details so here you go

Really inconsistent, not ready for this weekends flight test. Will be working on it this Sunday.

@Hardy Yu tried to push harder on this project and we have a member who is able to work on it recently
The goal is to finish the firmware entirely by the end of the week
If the firmware is not finished by the end, Hardy will take over and finish it

Same as last week
We talked in the EFS meeting this week, the PM said they aim to get the CAN interface done by the end of the term
The design of using the center LED to control the surrounding LED will happen next term

Payloads on track - waiting for filament
angled landing gear coming to a Peggy near you on Saturday
tracking antenna case to get final review and printed
- changes to be made
- Tracking Antenna Controller Board Mount

IR camera different settings tested on ground, IR beacon is still pretty bright (min exposure time + max ISO) OneDrive
Cluster estimation integrated and tested
MAVlink communication in development
IR camera integration is almost complete, just testing remains
Will push more for bright spot detection once we lock in camera settings, although we have preliminary algorithms ready (not integrated)

Camera test plan:

Set low shutter speed (ExposureTime) to make image darker
Play around with iso values to see what allows for beacon to be seen (AnalogueGain) without noise
Will be ready for flight test once proper values to set are found. Most likely will have some preset values for the camera settings and try them at flight test to see which shows up the best.

Camera testing progress:

Settings were found at Wednesday’s worksession
- Used ExposureTime:36, AnalogueGain:16, Brightness:0

The IR beacon in the bay, shown through the picamera with additional settings.

Thursday’s work
session, not enough time to properly test, team members needed help with their tasks
- Set to take pictures at different ExposureTime values, need to see which value makes the most sense to use
Will test a bit more on Friday, hopefully there is some sun to test in, otherwise will test in cloudy weather and see how it turns out.

2024-11-23 → 2024-11-23 Pegasus Flight Test
- Autonomy data collection
  - IR and CV again, collection went well last weekend
  - This test will change parameters for the IR cam to try to get better images
  - Cluster estimation for geolocation
- Tracking antenna test
- Pegasus pilot training
- Leave at 9:30 AM
2024-11-30 → 2024-11-30 Pegasus 2 Landing Gear Flight Test
- Pegasus 2 New Landing Gear Test
- Tracking Antenna → will check status
- Houston data collection for autonomy