2024-10-27 Autonomy Directors Sync

Owned by Georgia Vachon Westerlund
Last updated: 2024-10-28 by Aaron Wang
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Attendance

  • @Daniel Puratich

  • @Georgia Vachon Westerlund

  • @Nathan Green

  • @Tong Zhang

  • @Maxwell Lou

Progress so far this term

  • script for circle path around waypoints

  • not completed

    • cluster estimation

    • circle mode

    • imacs stuff

  • decision integration in flight interface: can give commands to drone

  • logging exists

  • can switch between cv and model in detection module

  • tested killswitch

Plan for competition

  • task 1

    • manual piloting or automatic

      • no sure if points are big on it

      • easy to do with just waypoints

    • airside sense automatic

      • focus on detection and mapping

  • task 2

    • we lack people to complete this autonomously

      • task 1 is more important

      • try for one thing at a time

    • POR is manual piloting

    • would want to land on the barrel if we did it

Plans for this term

  • New detection for IR beacons

    • beacons and cameras are here

    • model on ground

    • fly in field

    • need to do testing and new algorithm

  • cluster estimation

    • task has no progress in last few weeks

  • geolocation (ned location coords) to kml

    • very high priority

  • sending data over mavlink

    • probably get 60 characters per second (guess)

    • need to generate kml file

    • use mavproxy to do this

Other Active Tasks

  • pathing

    • generating circular search pattern

    • Aaron: Will follow up with jane to see progress

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deep management stuff

  • keeping the team fun and socials

  • people need to see the drone to understand system

    • Aaron: We should make it easy for people to find information on the drone system

  • its hard to care when people aren’t here

  • in person bootcamp reviews

    • Aaron: Once a term bootcamp social would alleviate the upfront pressure

  • @Maxwell Lou announce socials

  • a lot of pressure on leads: leads

  • increase bootcamp difficulty?

    • Aaron: I don’t think its necessary, although the bootcamp right now does not really inspire creative solutions. Most of the problem solving is in fighting tooling and understanding what the bootcamp is asking.

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