2025-01-30 Autonomy Meeting

Pathing

@Balaji Leninrajan @Evan Zhao

• Pathing sync happened last Sunday (2025-01-26 Pathing Sync )

  • Updating common version used in pathing

  • Refactor to remove dronkit and replace with common mavlink

  • Test both to make sure that there are no breaking changes

  • Future tasks will be added after the updates

  • If members are interested in helping with the migration to the latest version of common ping @Balaji Leninrajan in Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games to work out details

    • Can be handled by PMs but might be a good chance for new members to learn about the system if there is enough bandwidth for non comp tasks

• Integration with Obstacle Avoidance later?

  • Will discuss with leads and @Vyomm Khanna

  • Might have to wait till end of Feb to free up time to push for comp related stuff

• @Honzik Schenk and @Evan Zhao have PRs up for their tasks

  • @Honzik Schenk 's PR will be reviewed this weekend

  • @Evan Zhao 's PR has to be rebased and reviewed

Airside

@Achita Anantachina @Herman Gahra

• @Tochi Okoro Autonomous landing module

  • PR up, still working through it

• @Aleksa Misic Cluster estimation labels

  • PR up, close to working

  • Debugging - not passing tests

• @Herman Gahra Using message_encode_decode to send MAVlink messages to flight controller

  • PR up, close to finishing

• @Adrian Lock Communications worker unit tests

  • Still working through writing them

• @Rohan Katreddy Good progress on communications integration test

IMACS

@Vibhinn Gautam

• Working on reviewing PRs from last term - should be done within a week.
  - Seems like RTL button has been merged.
  - UI to change ports/connection also seems nearly complete.

• I see some tasks on Asana are labeled as ‘in progress’ - who is working on them?

• Will start assigning tasks from next week onwards as it seems like a lot of tasks are waiting on other subtasks.

Obstacle Avoidance

@Vyomm Khanna

• Dug through the OA Repo, reached out to @Andrew Shumto finalise some stuff

• Good amount of OA Documentation is ready!

• Need to setup a sync with @Tong Zhang to discuss 1) how we should optimise OA further, 2) Schedule ground and flight tests 3) possibility of drone transmitting a constantly updating 2D FoV of nearby obstacles to ground station during flight (Could also double up as an in-flight aid during manual flight).

IR Camera + detection

• Arducam testing?

  • Re-assigned to @Victor Huang

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