2023-08-29 F23 BOT Leads Meeting
- Anthony Luo
- Georgia Vachon Westerlund
- Megan Spee
Attendance
@Aaditya Chaudhary @Aaditya Chaudhary
@Alison Thompson
@Anthony Luo
@Ayoung Eun
@Conall Kingshott
@Daniel Puratich
@Megan Spee
@Mena Azab
@Nathan Green
@Georgia Vachon Westerlund
Announcements/Admin
Bay move yippee E5 1006
2fa
see discord thread
needed for outlook & onedrive
Recruitment events URGENT
Leads meeting
to send lettucemeet after this meeting
Gen meeting
to be scheduled after first onboarding meetings through mega poll
subteam meetings
subteam leads to schedule
SDC Showcase on Wed, Sept 6 (3-5 PM)
Automatic slideshow on TV (?)
Video compilation (?)
Small printouts presenting each drone (?) - related to ‘meet the fleet’ board.
talk of 3d models?? not for right now, just use the actual drones
Parts (PCB’s, nucleos, software, etc)
New member info sessions (Thursday (7) Saturday (9) Wednesday (13)?) 6pm weekend, 1pm saturday
New recruitment slides in progress
Each team to update their respective slides - subteam leads update this HERE
individual recruitment events? - not really
Up to subteam leads to schedule & book
Brough up re: mech stuff about starting an aero team. What is our approach to having different categories under a subteam? For ex:
Mech & Aero
Simulation
Composites
Airframe/Structures
UX/or whatever mechies call “human interactivity scoring”
ergonomics?
EE:
PCB design
RF engineering
Harnessing / Bringup / Integration
EFS
Ardupilot
ZeroPilot
software (pm/am/tm/etc)
drivers
ELRS & RF
Ground station (Tracking antenna, data forwarding, OSD, etc.
Auth
Airside Software
Ground side Software
Paris wasn’t built on a D20, so we need to see to it…. or something
“rome wasn’t built in a day”
but it was burned down in a couple!
“The leaning tower of pizza is …… <fill in the blank>”
We’d like to come up with short-term goals for this competition season, as well as long term goals for the next few projects. This goes for all subteams, and we do not need all subteams working on the “same” projects/airframe, but we need to fit it all into a meta that allows us to perform well at AEAC and (hopefully) SUAS. This may involve cutting projects that aren’t directly relevant, and creating other projects to fill niches and voids. Having this plan will really allow us to go hard on marketing.
Mech
composites work (good ways to make more composites)
Fixed wings // plane design → VTOL
Further effort/emphasis on simulation / optimization of different systems
EE
Replacing OTS solutions with (superior) custom ones
fit our mounting patterns, weight requirements, use cases better
Goes for sensors, RF devices, etc
Still same PCB design, but we want things more customized for our system
More effort/emphasis on RF stuff
We need to analyze antenna structures to some extent
@Daniel Puratich Will be focusing on this when onsite
EFS
Working with EE to provide support within ardu ecosystem for new sensors/devices
Zp3?
Autonomy
SUAS targets
Object Avoidance system
We schedule as needed!
@Daniel Puratich Will get a better feel for this when I’m boots on the ground
@Daniel Puratich to complete learn quiz for this