Attendance

• @Evan Janakievski

• @Alison Thompson

• @Andrew Chai

• @Daniel Puratich

• @Nathan Green

• @Balaji Leninrajan

• @Kenny Na

• @Manasva Katyal

• @Meghan Dang

• @Nathan Green

• @Roni Kant

• @Victoria Gee

• @Georgia Westerlund

• @Maxwell Lou

• @Herman Gahra

• @Derek Tang

Flight Test Updates

• Proof of flight for X500 and Peggy 2 completed

• Eclipse maiden out of scope

• Francis didn’t fly this weekend

  • issues setting up hotspot in the field

Task 1

• PLANNING: Peggy 1 Readiness

  • To order if blue controller still works (should be tested before meeting):

    • Nomad Dual 1-watt Gemini Xrossband ExpressLRS Module – RadioMaster RC

    • @Evan Janakievski to order this evening

  • Manasva and I to switch it over to gemini from lte

• STATUS: Autonomy Updates:

  • Documentation links to be added here @Maxwell Lou

    • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/x/iIB_p - Airside script (run on the rpi)

    • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/x/VQAsqw - Ground side script (run on the laptop/ground station)

  • STATUS: MAVLink KML messages

    • @Tochi Okoro @Maxwell Lou

    • Attempt at ground test

    • Fixed a bug from previous commit

    • Not completely tested

  • STATUS: Geolocation of Beacons

    • 10 m altitude to meet 3 m accuracy

  • STATUS: Pathing

    • Any updates @Balaji Leninrajan

      • made significant progress on multi-drone pathing

• STATUS: Peggy 2 Tuning

  • Flew very stable still with extra pumps, does not seem to need adjustment to tune

• STATUS: New Pi Interface PCBAs

  • Not needed (we have the two Rev Bs required)?

    • Correct, i forgot to remove bullet

  • Are we still working on Rev C assembly?

    • validated for power and just missing one IC (killswitch)

• STATUS: Fuse coords from drones by sending to one central computer

  • cc @Balaji Leninrajan

  • Discussed during pathing meetings

  • Unsure about doing this

  • Last thing to do between terms if there is time

  • Other more pressing things

  • Merging KML files is being worked on, but not sending between ground stations

• What Drones are we flying for task 1:

  • Drones:

    • Dallas/Houston → RPI 5 + interface → 10 mins flight time → not very stable airframe currently

    • X500 → RPI 5 + interface → 10 mins flight time

    • Cali Drone (Francis) → RPI Zero → 45 mins flight time

  • Justification discussed last meeting.

  • Flight line decision? Do we want to wait for this?

    • Nathan

    • Daniel

    • Evan

    • Manasva

    • fifth person must be mech or auto

      • auto good for task 1 kml stuff

      • backup GSO would be nice

      • mech good for batt swaps n fixing thing

      • mech would be more applicable for both tasks

      • Likely Alison, will discuss further in next comp sync (April 14th)

Task 2

• STATUS: Task 2 Payload

  • Finishing mounting to Peggy 1 and 2

• What drones are we flying for task 2:

  • Drones: Pegasus 1 & Pegasus 2

  • Justification: see last comp sync

• Peggy 1 Weight inquiry

  • are we overweight?

  • is it similar to peggy 2?

  • @Evan Janakievski to check (hopefully before meeting)

• EE to do harnessing on drones

• Peggy 1 to switch VTX to 5.8 GHz

  • Switching VTX channels to match this

Other

• STATUS: EFS CAN Lighting Board

  • @Nick Armstrong @Manasva Katyal @Derek Tang

  • Flew successfully last flight test! Mounted on x500

    • Were able to port to secondary CAN driver so it can run seamlessly in current configuration.

  • REV4 port should be done by next FT@Nick Armstrong !!!

  • Only one flight mode not validated: RTL

  • Less bright than ideal, can be increased as those developing them didn’t want to get blinded

• STATUS: Batteries Order

  • Arrived in medicine hat, @Emma Chan @Victoria Gee did we get an email confirming this from joleine? Or could we send one to confirm?

  • yes, got an email saying “received”

  • Send confirmation email about receiving proper order and how to get them once we are there

    • Confirm 4 6s and 3 3s potentially

• STATUS: Cali Airframe

  • Francis

  • didn’t fly last weekend

  • nathan is working on software for it this week

  • will fly next weekend, still need to evaluate changes to tuning

  • 12th or 13th at the latest

  • Alison can help during the week

  • hoping to test new megabattery then as well

  • by weekend can test more software for the KML

• STATUS: x500 Holybro airframe

  • Loo

  • Louie

  • Other names:

• PLANNING: Mission planner/Lua scripts for Task 1 and Task 2

  • @Evan Janakievski @Manasva Katyal bit overloaded at the moment

  • Still aiming to try to get this ready

• STATUS: Dallas

  • Got params matching Houston

  • Not flyable at the moment as one motor is out of commission

  • One of those motors is on a foam plane, will take from there

    • Turns out this is not the same motor, looks the same but has a different kV value

  • we need spare props at the least

  • AEAC 2025 Team Packing List and should add a budget as well

• PLANNING: Transporting the drone

  • Need to order containers or measure suitcases

  • Someone to check dimensions of Peggy and dimensions of suitcases Manasva, Tochi, and Alison offered

    • @Alison Thompson to do

• STATUS: Proof of flight videos for all drones

  • Needs to be edited

  • francis is ready → needs to be uploaded

  • x500 and peggy 2 ready

  • caption and splice them together

  • to be done next week

  • raw, unlisted video on youtube, will be rlly long

  • @Georgia Westerlund will do the editing (next week bc

• STATUS: Registrations

  • @Manasva Katyal registrations for six drones

• Spare parts list

  • @Evan Janakievski @Manasva Katyal

  • Need to go through bay this week

  • cc @Alison Thompson for ref

  • need to happen this week because shipping stuff to bay will take time

• @Daniel Puratich

  • Has anyone done RPAS safety declaration? No.

  • Can I bulk do them for everything this evening if not? seems like a yes

  • Will ask @Nathan Green for details this evening and then

  • all registration numbers are in confluence

Flight Test Planning

• Thurs April 10th

  • Manasva tuning Dallas

• Friday, April 11th

  • Aim is to get proof of flight Peggy 1 & Dallas

  • Peggy 1 tuning

  • Extra time dedicated to autonomy

• Timeline

  • We have five weeks left until competition.

  • Avoid changes and high risk operations in the couple of days leading up to competition as we need time to make fixes

  • How far are we away from having proof of flight for the onsite airframes?

    • X500

      • not in comp configuration yet (mount rpi but rpi software doesnt need to work)

      • have the mount ready just need to test fit and mount

      • PoF is done

    • Houston/Dallas

      • needs motor replaced

      • April 11th for PoF

    • Peggy 1 w/ Payload

      • April 12th for PoF

      • payload is now on it

      • needs switching to 5.8 GHz

      • tuning and adjustment from Peggy 2 tune

    • Peggy 2 w/ Payload

      • need to test four pumps working

      • PoF done

    • Lebron

      • PoF recorded

      • on @Daniel Puratich's phone, will upload ← this still needs to be done

• Flight test dates and stuff entered into Asana

  • Tuesday, May 6th everything gets packed up and drones taken apart.

• Binding phrases need to be updated to various ones for all drones that would fly simultaneously

  • Suggest Peggy 2 to stay as wargify so BetaFPV can stay as wargify and be used on others drones too

• Binding Phrases

  • every drone needs it’s own binding phrase as we intend on flying simultaneously

  • see thread here for discussion

  • @Evan Janakievski to come up with what each of them should be