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Battery Manager

Battery Manager

Owned by Roni Kant
Last updated: 2025-03-16 by Sydney Yang
1 min read

🤔 Problem Statement

The Battery Manager will execute the drone's battery failsafe system. This allows for certain actions to occur when the battery reaches low/critical levels, such as ground communication, autolanding, etc.

 Scope

Must have:

  • Notifying ground stations of low battery status

  • Auto landing when critical battery achieved

  • Visual/audio indication when battery low (LED flashing, buzzers)

Must have:

  • Notifying ground stations of low battery status

  • Auto landing when critical battery achieved

  • Visual/audio indication when battery low (LED flashing, buzzers)

Nice to have:

  • Auto landing to the “home“ waypoint when critical battery achieved

Not in scope:

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Milestone 1 Implementation

For Milestone 1, Battery Manager is a class that facilitates communications with battery drivers and intermanager communication with the telemetry manager. Here is a list of available functions.

Function Name

Purpose

Return Type

Function Name

Purpose

Return Type

Public Functions

BMUpdate

Updates battery status with current capacity and voltage.

None. Void Function.

Battery_Logic_Detection

Executes certain actions based on voltage and capacity level (low or critical)

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Private Functions

sendBDataToTelemetryManager

Sends battery data to the telemetry manager to notify ground station of current battery status and report when low.

None. Void Function.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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