Attendance

• @Daniel Puratich

• @Ryan Scomazzon

• @Alison Thompson

• @Balaji Leninrajan

• @Evan Janakievski

• @Jane Zeng

• @Maxwell Lou

• @Meghan Dang

• @Smile Khatri

• @Manasva Katyal

• @Victor Huang

• @Evan Zhao

• @Emma Chan

• @Derek Tang

• @Vibhinn Gautam

• @Tochi Okoro

Flight Test Debrief

• How did January 19th FT go?

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  • Did we resolve model match issues?

    • @Yuchen Lin says it is not model match as it is able to pair

    • Need to look into antenna issues

• What can we do better in future?

• Did CV camera work?

Task 1

• When will filter and camera be assembled?

  • Asked mech for help, Nathan printed first “mount” uploaded

  • Same camera, filter might not be the same (assign to figure this out)

  • Printed by Tuesday (depending on if same filter), can Autonomy mount themselves?

• When can a full mock task 1 be run? With IR filter and multiple beacons?

  • Planned for weekend of Feb 1st and 2nd

  • To be practiced with pilots

  • Autonomous movement isnt priority since no points (only autonomous coords)

• Are all autonomy workers merged? (System ready to operate at competition level?)

  • Not quite, aiming to complete by next flight test Jan 26th

  • Drone sending madlink portion remaining (done in separate tests, not in competition code)

• Is the new airframe being pursued or not?

  • Things purchased/shipping on its way

  • Important for tuning, not going into comp

• Are camera mounts completed for peggy 2?

  • Camera mount for IR, on the monster mount once smaller mount is printed (filter stuff)

  • Plan for the IR camera, will ensure fix for op flow orientation before moving forward

  • Should be printable within the next week

Task 2

• What is mech hard deadline for camera mounting?

  • End of next week goal, check in with Camilo

  • Manual flying, release and loading TBD based off conops

• Do we have working single servo driver boards?

  • If not, when?

  • Do we really need? can we run off pixhawk?

    • Should run the math off this

  • Plan to use scope design servo (continuous rotation Ryan can check?), figure out what’s going on with pump first

  • Check pix current rating to see if we can just run off pix

  • One module working, getting other two working

    • Derek to follow up with Hardy (board and candshot)

    • Maybe assemble another board?

• When will payload be ready for FT?

  • Design changes done in CAD on the 27th

  • Assemble by the 10th of Feb?

  • We need a better tune before these can be super safely tested

  • Goal around Feb 13th

  • Figuring out current pump

  • Tested pump. Can do 1.5m suction and 3m pushing. Next step would be to test 3m suction so the pump can be mounted to the drone.

  • Look into how long of a tube we need

  • 12V needed on drone for the pump. 12V is on PDB? Check if there is room for more current.

  • Plan to use two 12V pumps and go back to a 12 and 6 if needed

  • See how fast the new pump is

• when next rev water controller?

  • current sense is highest priority

  • Adding 48V input support to water controller? a lot of effort but would be cool.

• Email AEAC if we can get part marks from just getting into position

Other

• When will tracking antenna be tested next?

  • Working on fixing issues, personnel interested but not priority

  • Putting gemini on tracking antenna controller?

• When will tuning practice occur for EFS?

  • Is this happening on a new airframe?

  • Delegated today to IMU and sensorfusion in sensorpilot, taking on tasks in parallel, creating a solution for comp

• What is status of LED system?

  • new boards when?

  • firmware for patterns when?

• Is there a plan for packing the drone?

  • deadlines and timelines for seeing it come apart and stuff

• RPi rev c

  • when assembled boards?

  • this is R&D for into next comp cycle

• Is ground station intent for comp?

  • Are there ppl working on it?

  • deadlines?

  • are we dropping it completely?

Flight Test Planning

Pegasus issues

• Having ELRS connection issues with Pegasus 2

  • Need to check if model match if off for the drone itself, but it is off on the Beta FPV backpack

  • Same binding phrase

  • Using the gemini-mavlink model on controller

• What are we testing next?

  • IR camera testing

    • Need to take CV camera off and put IR camera on

      • @Camilo Artigas Alos i (evan) can call you one day and explain what needs to be done to replace the cam with the IR one

• When are we testing it?

  • January 26th, 2025

• Who is testing it?

  • @Yuchen Lin driving flight test

• Flight test weekend of February 1st and 2nd

  • Need to check something before finalizing which day, but @Evan Janakievski can run this test most likely