Attendance

Flight Test Updates

• 2025-03-07 Flight Test (https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FT/pages/3057156097 )

  • Card #1 (Peggy IR Cam)

    • KML not flown as Autonomy was unable to get it running

    • Flew Huston IR cam test, exact same process, but with Peggy

    • Noticed only different was more vibe, so will discuss ways to improve detection algorithm (likely will need some config tuning)

  • Card #2 (Tuning)

    • Flew a final performance eval flight

    • @Manasva Katyal analyzed logs, vibe and step response are within “very good” bounds as per Ardupilot docs

    • This marks the final official tuning related flight for the airframe

    • Will come back to future of this airframe when discussing Task 1

Task 1

• PLANNING: Drone Swarm??

  • As per AEAC response, we can bring multiple airframes and fly them simultaneously for Task 1

  • This is quite game-changing, and should be seriously considered

• STATUS: Autonomy Updates:

  • STATUS: MAVLink KML messages

    • At previous flight test, system was runtime erroring and thus was not flown

  • STATUS: Solutions to False Detections

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  • STATUS: Geolocation of Beacons

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  • STATUS: Pathing

    • Currently working on searching for hotspots in concentric circles around the middle of the field – Evan Zhao

• STATUS: EFS Tuning Airframe

  • Officially done the tuning cycle

  • Analyzed flight logs, step response and vibe are reduced and within “very good” thresholds according to Ardupilot docs

  • Will start process on Pegasus at the next flight test!

  • Thoughts on transitioning the airframe to a pilot training frame once pilot training program is started up?

Task 2

• STATUS: Pump Ground Test

  • @Evan Janakievski @Ryan Scomazzon to update

• STATUS: Flight Testing

  • Will be flown at the coming weekend’s FT

Other

• Full Team Work Session

  • After discussion @Evan Janakievski , @Manasva Katyal deemed that full team worksession might not be the best for efficiency

  • Instead will run an auto bootcamp to bring up all onsite members in all aspects of operating the system (@Maxwell Lou )

  • Will right after that run a high level intro to the entire system we run on our drones (@Manasva Katyal + @Evan Janakievski )

• STATUS: EFS CAN Lighting Board

  • @Nick Armstrong to update

• STATUS: Comp Readiness

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• STATUS: Backup Airframe

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• PLANNING: Transporting the drone

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• PLANNING: Proof of flight video

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Flight Test Planning

• Flight test scheduled for this coming weekend

• 2025-3-16 Pegasus 2 Task 1 Sim w/ KML messages over MAVLink, Peggy Tuning, Task 2 Practice

Asana

• Look over asana dates and adjust/make updates