2025-01-27 EFS Meeting

• Please fill out the W25 Team Roster if you haven’t yet this term: https://forms.office.com/r/ka0MJHJQ9D

• Please fill out the leadership interest form if you would like to become a lead starting S25:
  https://forms.office.com/r/gXEh9z4fgu

• Lots of people interested in EFS social (16). Need to find location big enough.

• Competition interest form https://forms.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=h1o6cprzIkqSRz_CQMATlohH8WBFXHtOjCR7Pcx0oF1UQzFXMFFCSU4xNk5LUTc4RVZMNkRYOEZSTS4u last chance!

• Firmware Jobs & Interview Workshop this Tuesday (tmrw) 8-9:30pm in E7 4417 and online

M1 Drivers Ethan Leung

• Message Queue Dami Peng

  • Review the interface

• Motor Channel (PWM) Bill Lu

  • Motor driver is probably working but we need to validate once he gets a Windows laptop

• RC Receiver Chandise Anderson

  • Currently working on RC driver

  • Implemented the conversion from SBUS to RC data

  • Implemented parsing the raw SBUS data

  • Currently working on the DMA aspect of the driver

• Watchdog Ronald You

  • Driver was complete

  • Realized the driver is unnecessary and for simplicity can be implemented in the ioc

  • An abstraction layer is still needed for mock tests

  • IOC is updated, need to update the abstraction

  • More or less done, interface to kick the watchdog without hardware dependencies

• SD Card Ari Van Cruyningen

  • Preliminarily working

  • Waiting to get DMA working with it

M2/3/4 Drivers

• RFD900 Aditya Bang

  • Trying to make two RFD900s communicate

  • RFD900 tools software not worky

• IMU + AHRS Liam Suter Kelvin Feng Richard Dong

  • Calibrating of BMX160 going well

    • Sensible readings on gyro and accelerometer

  • Ready to start coding for the STM board

  • Researching best sensor fusion alg to use (will prooobably try Kalman first as it’s simple)

• GPS Ria Prakash Ronak Patel

  • Been reading through the data sheet

  • The output given by the module looks good

  • Will be implementing later this week

• CRSF Uzayr Hussaini

  • Check on progress, might move to another task as we might not use CRSF driver

Attitude Manager Ayoung Eun

• 1-to-1 Motor Output Ayoung Eun

• Failsafe Raiyan Samin

  • Waiting on PR to be done

• Arm / Disarm Raiyan Samin

  • Waiting on PR to be done

System Manager Manasva Katyal

• RC Passthrough Sreya Roy Chowdhury

  • Pretty much done

  • Arm signal now passed directly to AM will update code

  • Then will merge PR

• Kick Watchdog Sreya Roy Chowdhury

  • Waiting on PR

Infrastructure Thuvaragan Prathifkumar

• just assigned

ZP Board Validation Ari Van Cruyningen

• just assigned

LED Board Nick ArmstrongTochi Okoro Billy Karantzoulis

• Gotta go through Anni’s list of things for LED Board and turn into actionable items with priority (EFS Leads)

  • Neopixel control is in a great state

  • Board-board communication needs work, but the low level CAN side of it is done

  • Board-Ardupilot communication needs a lot of work, in particular figuring out how to get Ardupilot to spit out relevant messages like speed, braking, etc onto the CAN bus

Servo Hardy Yu Allan Su Ethan Leung

• Hardy: Talked to Ben last weekend, and he told me that he might find another task.

6s Power Module Bryan MaAndrew Wang

• 6S Power Module has been updated

  • Clarifies what Pixhawk 4 and Ardupilot are

  • Explains Polling, Interrupt, and DMA

• https://github.com/UWARG/efs-can-power-module now has a first commit at ioc_setup

  • The IOC setup is now set up with port modes (analog input, digital input, etc.)

  • Next step: start working on driver and get readings from sensor

Baud Rate Auto Sensing Teighan Miller

• Pretty good idea on how to go about baud rate sensing, need to talk with Leads to figure out how to integrate with what we have

Sensor Cluster

• Barometer

  • On pause until EE gets board

• IMU

  • Paused until ZP driver

• Lidar Aidan Fisher

  • Working on driver

• Magnetometer Henry Wu

  • tested integration with CAN

  • rx working with CAN

  • tx signal on logic analyzer, but nack sometimes

• PixArt OFS

  • Paused until EE board

• Radar Henry Wu

Tracking Antenna Larry Pan (Jackie Yi)

• Larry Pan Working to debug the decoding/parsing step when handling mavlink data.

• Flight test vs simulation results of tracking antenna is different, parsing MavLink data to figure out why and how

ZP Message Queue Interface

https://github.com/UWARG/efs-zeropilot-3.5b/pull/17

ZP SM RC Passthrough

https://github.com/UWARG/efs-zeropilot-3.5b/pull/15

ZP AM 1-to-1 Motor Mapping

https://github.com/UWARG/efs-zeropilot-3.5b/pull/13

Drone Tuning (+1-2) (IMU peeps taking a look)

• Learn to configure ArduPilot controls, and stabilize competition drone

• Good introduction to controls

  • Configure noise filters for sensors

  • Tune PIDs

  • Observe flight tests and make adjustments

• Excellent opportunity if you want to go to competition