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2025-03-20 Autonomy meeting

2025-03-20 Autonomy meeting

Owned by Maxwell Lou
Last updated: 2025-03-23 by Tochi Okoro
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 Date

Mar 20, 2025

 Participants

  • @Tochi Okoro

  • @Honzik Schenk

  • @Evan Zhao

  • @Balaji Leninrajan

  • @Herman Gahra

  • @Khalil Andy Hawari

  • @Haokai Xuan

Announcements

  • Ground test bootcamp video is out in case you guys missed it: 2025_architecture_overview_and_ground_testing.mkv

  • Drone system integration (How to use the drone) presentation: System Integration Introduction W25

  • Someone needs to measure the past flight tests and how much distance the predicted points for landing pads are compared to real landing pad points: 2024-11-16 Houston Geolocation. KML Files are already there! Run Cluster estimation on those points if possible

  • Help out with more ground testing and tuning detect target! This is the final stretch and we need everyone’s help!

  • Interest in Autonomy social?

Upcoming Flight Tests

  • Mar 21, 2025 Test send MAVLink again

    • Last time our code failed, probably due to the GPS being unable to connect. Hopefully this time it’s better. The statustext groundside repo has been fixed to skip some system messages that somehow got through.

    • We will need ground testing done by Mar 20, 2025

    • We still need to go through and get better settings. The code to run tests is here: Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

 Discussion topics

Project

PM

Notes

Project

PM

Notes

Pathing

@Balaji Leninrajan @Evan Zhao

Task updates

  • @Evan Zhao Task 1 logic MVP merged

  • @Jane Zeng and @Rohan Katreddy's tasks are still in progress

  • @Balaji Leninrajan Will probably PR my task (more functions for flight controller tn)

    • TBD - may want to archive unused modules

Comp updates

We recently learned that we can fly multiple drones simultaneously at comp

  • Test feasibility of controlling multiple drones at once with pathing

If feasible:

  • Modify search pattern generations to split area between drones

    • Tech design for this task will probably be a larger discussion for a different call

  • create a version of task 1 2025 for the drone swarm approach

Other

  • optimize generated search pattern

  • optimize other parts of flight (altitude gain and loss should be done while in lateral motion)

  • Reach out to @Mihir Gupta and @Aaron Wang for more info

Airside

@Achita Anantachina @Herman Gahra

  • @Victor Huang Adding min brightness filter

    • PR merged

  • @Siddh Patel Add timing logs to workers

    • first PR merged, will put up PR for second half soon

  • @John Zhang communications worker: write file to pixhawk with gps locations

    • PR merged

  • No updates from @Aleksa Misic @Bill Yang @Amin

IMACS

@Vibhinn Gautam

  • SITL Logger @Vibhinn Gautam @Tochi Okoro
    - test cases need to be made, still in progress.

  • Camera module @Alex Liu
    - should be tested on WARG laptop and other laptops to ensure it is working. Will be reviewed

  • Waypoints @Andrew Wan
    - PR is up, to be reviewed.

  • Map Module @Hasan Baig
    - no update so far

Obstacle Avoidance

@Vyomm Khanna

  • @Honzik Schenk Translate valid angles to real drone commandd

    • Pretty much done, waiting for @Vyomm Khanna to merge branch

IR Camera + detection

 

  • @Oliad Rundassa Reassigned to help with getting Arducam driver ready

    • PR is up ready for review

  • Image sorting DONE @Tochi Okoro

  • Tuning the settings for brightspot detection

    • @Allen Lian @Khalil Andy Hawari @Haokai Xuan

    • Detect tuning is done

ML

 

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 Action items

Geolocation Verification: Houston Geolocation logs + Peggy Geolocation Logs (TBD, sometime this coming week) @Maxwell Lou @Balaji Leninrajan @Khalil Andy Hawari

 Decisions

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