2024-11-08 Autonomy Meeting

Pathing

@Jane Zeng

• Circle mode will be speedrunning now

• Waypoint circles?

  • PR is up?

• KML generation script - on ground

  • Exists?

Airside

@Ashish Agrahari

• Cluster estimation progress

  • Awaiting merge and rebase

• Communications worker

  • Also needs to be able to send data to ground through mavlink (STATUSTEXT)

• The ground will then run a script to parse the GPS coords from the mavlink messages – Data encoding task

• Perhaps send STATUSTEXT messages on camera startup and bootup

Other Tasks:

• @Achita Anantachina Classical CV method tests

  • @R D to look into issue

• @Shahvir Wahab Testing ROS with ardupilot

  • Sync with Eddy and @Tong Zhang about future of ROS

• @Victor Terme Auto landing module (for task 2)

  • Probably reassign

• @Daniel Wang Detect Target Logging

  • Reviewed

• @Andrew Wan @Arjun Sodhi Rudimentary geolocation

ML

@Vibhinn Gautam

• No notes as of now.

IMACS

@Balaji Leninrajan

• PRs for

  • Create widget to execute terminal scripts

  • Implement UI to change address and port (reviewed)

  • Create RTL (reviewed and updated)

• Merged

  • Create navbar

• All other tasks in progress

Obstacle Avoidance

@Vyomm Khanna

• Created a DroneKit script for an auto mission that switches from auto to guided mode and then back to auto mode, simulated on mp (works well, allows for intermediate waypoints ie. the output of path deflection algorithm). Aborted flight-test midway due to safety.

  • Guided mode controls is ready

• Wrapping up decision module for vfh

• completed unit tests for lidar_parser, finishing vfh and decision module unit tests. working on integration tests next week.

IR Camera + detection

@Vibhinn Gautam

• Please find more IR cameras (preferably global shutter and non-distorting), have a $930 budget sitting around that will expire Dec 20

  • Get a few members tasked on this, we need more people

  • 940nm detection