Attendance

@Alison Thompson

@Balaji Leninrajan

@Emma Chan

@Evan Janakievski

@Evan Zhao

@Herman Gahra

@Maxwell Lou

@Meghan Dang

@Sam Zhang

@Smile Khatri

@Yuchen Lin

@Ryan Scomazzon

@Manasva Katyal

@Roni Kant

@Tochi Okoro

Flight Test Debrief

• IR Camera Test

  • Read over flight test debrief if you are interested in more details

  • Issues with camera settings caused problems with imaging

    • Ground tests need to be better organized and software to be better proven ahead of time

      • We accomplished this towards the end of the F24 term, so not sure why the culture of sufficient ground tests is no longer present?

        • Push towards ground testing for onsite PM (try balcony, reduce reflection)

      • Use outdoor to calibrate the settings as indoor lighting is not bright enough

      • Camera does not need to be mounted on to houston to do a ground test, can just have it plugged in and support it to make sure ribbon cable is not damaged, but for future tests Mech will be able to install camera earlier than this past week

      • Push to test by this weekend

  • File corruption issues affected multiple files during the flight test. Some files (and logs) would appear as 0 bytes. Still investigating why this happens. – Evan Zhao

  • The workers broke during some flights, but not during others. That is my fault, I should have more rigorously ground tested before the flight test. – Evan Zhao

  • As shown below in an example image taken from the IR camera, it’s detecting snow (which is cold) as white! I thought it’s supposed to detect heat as white? – Evan Zhao

    Open

    

    Set exposure (as fast as possible) and ISO manually for next time

  • Houston instability in stabilize mode, flew in loiter which was not drifting nearly as much

  • @Manasva Katyal to add anything extra or correct above points as he was FTC and Pilot

Task 1

• Autonomy system updates

  • Mavlink almost ready, merged in today/tomorrow

• Holy bro kit is built, thanks to Manasva, and is currently being worked on to be configured which will allow it to begin to be tuned

  • @Manasva Katyal is driving the tuning for this airframe

  • Next steps general calibration, compass, first flight (target this weekend/after reading week)

Task 2

• Updates for Task 2 solution @Alison Thompson ?

  • CADing rn - design update will be done and ready for review tonight

  • Need to send out a purchase req for a second new pump

  • Will need to waterjet new poly-carb, rest of changes will be 3D prints

• Peggy 2

  • Landing gear is bring switched back to straight landing gear

    • currently sitting on jig with no legs

  • New monster mount is temporarily on

• Update for single servo driver boards?

  • May not be needed based on current plan for mech Task 2 solution

  • Lower priority, planned to be made in the next few work sessions (couple weeks?)

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

  • @Emma Chan to send (ping Daniel + Nathan)

• PDB has plenty of headroom on current. 12V rail can be used to run the pumps.

Other

• Updates for LED system?

  • Some of the elec on the boards are sketchy in relation to the CAN

  • Testing each individual board for TX and RX

• Any ideas for packing and transporting drone?

  • mech to look into containers vs attendees suitcases

  • Thinking of getting totes like these

    Open

    

• Tracking antenna updates? → not comp critical (lower priority), but for future comp cycles

  • two people assigned to make progress

  • hoping for end of term to pinpoint solution

Flight Test Planning

• Pegasus ELRS connection not worked on over weekend, will update when attempts are made

  • @Manasva Katyal and @Evan Janakievski discussed over weekend about what to attempt next

• What are we testing next?

  • IR camera test

• When are we testing it?

  • Feb 8,9 weekend

• Who is testing it?

  • @Manasva Katyal

• Deadline of ground test

  • Friday with proof of images showing functionality

GSO or Pilot school?

• @Yuchen Lin @Manasva Katyal Program for interest in GSO/Pilot school

• Show up to flight test to get involved and get onboarded while learning

• Allows individuals to drive the team forward with ideas and decision making