2023-08-17 EOT Meeting Minutes
Admin Notes
One more meeting @ start of next term (Sep 6)
Attendance
@Aaron Wang
@Aaditya Chaudhary
@Anthony Luo
@Aidan Bowers (Deactivated)
@Christopher Chung
@Conall Kingshott
@Daniel Puratich
@Ethan Abraham
@Megan Spee
@Alison Thompson
@Michael Botros
@Smile Khatri
@Ayoung Eun
@Mena Azab
@Nolan Haines
@Neha Srivastava
@Ryan Chan
@Taim Al-Dabbagh
@Thushanth Parameswaran
@Wingchee Wen (Deactivated)
@Nathan Green
@Ethan Woo
@Alison Thompson
@Mihir Gupta
@R D
Actual Meeting Minutes
Project Goal(s) for fall term
Objectives: Have entire competition architecture ready & tested. The earlier the better.
Comp drone (frame + wiring + duplicates / redundancy | Validation)
Antenna Tracker (software (tracking) + software (communication) + EE hardware (antennas) + EE Hardware (Nucleo breakout) + Mech hardware)
Landing pad detection & auto-landing (landing pad detection, geolocation, decision pipeline, mavlink communication - Jetson port still broken UART0 for debugging, UART1 not working)
Gemini (EE Hardware, Flashing ELRS Firmware, Communication with RX/TX modules.)
LTE (testing, validation)
Video Solutions (testing, validation)
Sensor Calibration/stackup
Path planning (Software + GCS Communication)
Availabilities: Who will be on-site next term? How often?
Autonomy: @Mihir Gupta @Amy Hu
Electrical: @Mena Azab @Nolan Haines @Nolan Haines
Embedded Flight Software: @Aaditya Chaudhary @Aaditya Chaudhary @Ayoung Eun@Christopher Chung
Mechanical: @Conall Kingshott smile/sohee co-op in person, nathan/alison/arjun partial availability
Meetings, Worksessions, Syncs, Workshops
Architecture meetings: When will these happen? How will they be scheduled?
As soon as conops comes out. Saturday & Sunday directly after release?
Lettucemeet for the weekend (friday eve. incl, monday eve incl.) day of conops release.
Project Syncs: Which project’s need syncs? Which ones need in-person cross-subteam work sessions?
Worksessions: We will have a bay downstairs, so much more realistic to have everyone coming in together! !
please come and use the bay, it looks good if we use it
Flight Tests
Scheduling: Aiming to have a flight test every other weekend?
Identify what airframes are available (Houston, Pegasus)
Identify tasks which need to be flight-tested.
need very detailed breakdown (# asana)
ensures these deadlines are met
other subteams are aware of these deadlines as well
schedule this around reading week, exams, etc. think ahead!
Identify how we can break those tasks down so that we bring incremental targets to each flight test.
Identify how we can run multiple tests in one flight-test.
Identify how we can minimize operator overloading for flight tests (e.g. start running auto-missions, operator only needs to know how to RTL, etc).
Auxiliary Projects
Projects not directly related to this competition season, but likely to be necessary if we want to continue to improve and compete at larger competitions.