2020-07-12 Meeting notes

Teerstra Update

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Simulation status

Anthony

• We’ve got propulsion, elevator and aileron (with adverse yaw) working in the sim.

• The stuff that’s currently pushed on the master branch of the simulation repo runs stand alone, as an example, and is also ready to be hooked into our autoPilot software.

  • I’ve put instructions inside Spike/Cmakelists.txt for running it standAlone, feel free to screw around with various aileron, throttle and elevator settings and see how airspeed, altitude, angle of attack and a bunch of other cool shit changes over time.

  • The implementations that hook into the sensor interfaces and the SendToSafety modules are working. Some instructions for hookup in Cmakelists.txt

Moving forward:

• Rudder still needs to be modeled. Datcom does not model rudders for some reason, so a more creative way of determining the coefficients will have to be figured out.

• Things need to be hooked up. I envision a -s option when we run our build script to run the simulation.

• Docs need to be written about what’s going on and how to make changes to the sim.

Sensor Fusion Status

Lucy

• Most recent changes are on the debug branch

• New structure: SF_GetResult takes in SensorData_t structs in addition to SFOutput_t. This means sensor function are exposed in SensorFusion.hpp.

• Got the unit test to build. However, unit test is failing with SegFault.
  
  

State Machine Status

Annie

• No updates

• Next week should be better

Battery Interface

Sahil

• Opened a PR ready for review!

• Annie, Anthony, and Lucy to add comments

Attitude Manager Deadline?

• Set for next Sunday

• Lucy and Annie to head down and crank

Sahil’s next task

• Come up with 3 conceptual ideas for UGV, including how it should be attached to the plane