Attendance

Introduction

Water controller
- POR assembly this weekend/ as soon as boards come in
- no firmware required
Water controller Rev 2
- Making a rev 2 to add extra output if we need to use solenoid
- Targeting design done end of week - discuss purpose of this?
- does this also need to be assembled asap? should the bringup of this board next term be very high priority?
LED REV 4
- POR early next term
  - do we have a deadline for bringup for this? if not, when?
Tracking antenna controller rev2
- POR assembly early next term
Unified VTX
- POR sometime next term
- components ordered
- Tom Chiu will be onsite to drive this
- is this still viable for comp 2025?
Single servo driver - handed off for firmware
Pi interface rev c
- halfway through routing
- on track - end of term
- SIM card holder out of stock - looking into alternatives
- Discuss comp priority?

Should we make any changes to this list? No deadlines as of rn besides water controller being ready for Dec 14th FT.

harness for RPi has been completed and handed off to autonomy for further testing
- details: copied from Jerry’s discord message:
  - the raspberry pie system is ready for ground test. There are 3 cables to the RPi Rev B PCB, the UART kill switch cable is plugged in but the other two cables were not plugged in. xt30 power cable is straightforward, just connect the female connector to the male connector on the pcb. For the telemetry cable, unplug cable in the pixhawk telem3 port rn and plug the one coming from rpi in Uart killswitch cable is connected to pixhawk io pwm port 8. I think I told you yesterday, but I didn't include any details so here you go

Yaw and Pitch tracking are both working
Currently working when TA is manually placed to face north (Yaw 0 degrees is north)
Otherwise, there is a calibration issue, will be looked over today
Ready for flight test on Nov 23rd

IR camera different settings tested on ground, IR beacon is still pretty bright (min exposure time + max ISO) OneDrive
Cluster estimation integrated and tested
MAVlink communication in development
IR camera integration is almost complete, just testing remains
Will push more for bright spot detection once we lock in camera settings, although we have preliminary algorithms ready (not integrated)

Camera test plan:

Set low shutter speed (ExposureTime) to make image darker
Play around with iso values to see what allows for beacon to be seen (AnalogueGain) without noise
Will be ready for flight test once proper values to set are found. Most likely will have some preset values for the camera settings and try them at flight test to see which shows up the best.

Camera testing progress:

Settings were found at Wednesday’s worksession
- Used ExposureTime:36, AnalogueGain:16, Brightness:0

Thursday’s worksession, not enough time to properly test, team members needed help with their tasks
- Set to take pictures at different ExposureTime values, need to see which value makes the most sense to use
Will test a bit more on Friday, hopefully there is some sun to test in, otherwise will test in cloudy weather and see how it turns out.