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2025-03-07 Autonomy : Director Syncs

2025-03-07 Autonomy : Director Syncs

Attendance

  • @Daniel Puratich

  • @Georgia Westerlund

  • @Maxwell Lou

  • @Evan Zhao

  • @Tochi Okoro

  • @Tong Zhang

Leadership Transition

  • Tong is stepping down immediately.

    • How is stepping down going?

  • @Evan Zhao

    • most interested in the PM stuff right now

    • time commitment might be tough

  • @Tochi Okoro

    • up for it

    • will vote next leads meeting

  • Maxwell and Tochi are on the same stream for right now

  • Bring-up of new lead discussion

  • Onsite leadership

  • Announce new leads after the vote

  • Lead Onboarding Process

Past Progress

  • Task 1 Development

    • Looking to improve camera settings but images are looking good

      • improvement this term !!

    • mavlink kml, working on Pixahwk hardware with Houston

    • Tuning detection is the final step

  • What’s happened to some of the side projects Autonomy was working on?

    • IMACS

      • newer PMs on these

    • obstacle avoidance

      • some ramp up time for these

    • model training for detections

      • paused.

      • focusing on tuning on the current detection algorithm

    • pathing

      • looking to include this in task 1 for automated circle flying

      • looking to have it comp ready

      • beacons came in today to test that!!

    • Are these worth continuing?

      • Does the autonomy team have bandwidth for it?

  • Subteam Work Sessions & Socials

    • work session, tea, then meeting happened at start of term!

  • Leadership transition and who’s onsite vs who’s offsite is tough

    • PMs all shuffled at start of term

    • a lot of people went offsite this term

    • getting people hardware won’t really help, have plenty of data

Future Goals

  • More complex programs.

    • MEF funding for these?

    • wild ideas?

    • Are there fun ideas that leads want to pursue?

      • lidar & obstacles avoidance

      • object detection w/ normal cameras

Blockers & Requests

  • comp stuff is just getting beacons ready

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