Attendees
Directors:
Mechanical:
Problem Statement:
Most drones or arial vehicles, all have a navigation and position lights that have colors and certain sequences that allow other pilots to identify the aircraft; orientation, visibility especially in nighttime operation. Certain lights must be on the time due to regulation.
Realism points for replicating this on our drone.
Legal requirement for flying at night/civil twilight
Past implementations:
ICARUS
LED strips taped to cable channels.
looks bad (white strip on entirely black drone)
Zip tied on
not very bright
tied to one relay, poor control of lights
Previous drones have not had lights other than Icarus.
Some system of lighting control:
Visible at night and daytime (very bright)
Controllable through Ardupilot software
Autonomously without pilot input
Well integrated
Existing Solutions that work with Ardupilot:
Existing I2C, Neopixel
GPIO, PWM - Use PWM/relay sequence to toggle light off.
Each light must be visible from