2024-11-22 Autonomy Meeting

Pathing

@Jane Zeng

• Circle mode ?

• Achita is working on KML generation, should be up soon

  • Tests for ensuring competition style valid

• Path generation PR, Jane will review

• Water search - PR is up, Jane will review today

Airside

@Ashish Agrahari

• Communications worker

  • @Daniel Wang to move to after cluster estimation

    • PR reviewed, has to be updated

• Reassigned @Aayush Deshpande to cluster estimation logs

  • Done, merged

• @John Zhang ground communication using FTP

  • Progress

• @Lucas Liao Perhaps send STATUSTEXT messages on camera startup and bootup

  • Lots of issues, attempting to fix with nathans code

• @Siddh Patel New detect target class for IR detection

• @Aleksa Misic Cluster estimation clustering by labels

• @Daniel Akira Suzuki Data encoding

Other Tasks:

• @Achita Anantachina Classical CV method tests

  • PR up! Has to rebase though

• @Shahvir Wahab Testing ROS with ardupilot

  • ?

• @Tochi Okoro Auto landing module (for task 2)

  • Will start soon, has been unwell

• @Andrew Wan @Arjun Sodhi Rudimentary geolocation

  • Almost done

• @Bruce wang Do edge detection of water bucket for task 2

  • In progress, getting an understanding

• @Leonardo Zhou Detect white

  • Detect white spots in an image

• @Catherine Jin Image filtering function: put in detect target module

ML

@Vibhinn Gautam

• No notes as of now.

IMACS

@Balaji Leninrajan

• PRs for

  • Create widget for camera (Reviewed)

  • Implement UI to change address and port (reviews in progress - will hopefully review soon)

  • Create RTL (Changed pushed, will review soon)

• All other tasks in progress

Obstacle Avoidance

@Vyomm Khanna

• Refined new decision module for vfh output, adding flightmode and nextwaypoint as params for thorough obstacle-avoidance

• created integration tests for lidar_parsing, fixed minor issues in test-cases, should be ready to merge.

  • adjusting flight_interface and creating a new OdometryandWaypoint data struct (using common’s Orientation and PositionLocal structs) as old versions redundant due to changes in common, so that VFHDecision can access position, orientation, mode and waypoints dynamically in queue.

• wrapping up integration tests for vfh, looking into the exact commands VFHDecision should output (currently just steering_angle)

IR Camera + detection

@Vibhinn Gautam

• MEF presentation went well! Results expected in a week or two

• Order sent for IR Camera.

• @Siddh Patel looks like PR is up -.

• Testing requests for new IR Camera - when they come in we would like to ideally test them out. This will be a task but assigning it in this meeting is optional.

• Camera driver @Alex Liu

  • Pending testing with Rpi and picam, took home the hardware (1 each)