November 16th, 2022

General Announcements

  • Investigating CIRC

  • Internal

    • Leads for next term


Mechanical

@Austin Tailon Huang @Chanpakorn Chaiklahan

UPDATES

  • Weekly drivetrain meeting scheduled at Sundays at 11am (bay or hybrid)

  • Redesign of ebox, gimbal and comms stand finalized

  • URDF Project launched

ACTION ITEMS

  • Create updated URDF for arm controls

  • Continue with science assembly

  • Clean up mechanical side of bay

  • Find a new lead

  • Drivetrain meeting - cheng / nico / orson involvement??

 


Electrical

@Ari Wasch @Logan Hartford

UPDATES

  • Assembled two PDBs, BMS, RS422 boards

  • PDB not tested, BMS shorted, thermal camera being purchased

  • BMS/BUCK OTS selected/purchased

  • New edge routers work for comms

ACTION ITEMS

  • Hosting another work session to test the PDB and fix the BMS

  • Wiring event


Software

@Orson Marmon @Keyon Jerome

UPDATES

  • Progress Updates

    • Organized subgroups for a bunch of SW projects:

      • Arm → Meshva, Austin and I are getting going with the arm controller! View developments in #proj-arm and #cartesian-controller

      • Navigation → Starting to organize a meeting between myself, Nico, and Cheng for a task board/roadmap for navigation

    • Bought the items for the software firmware rearchitecture:

      • 5x USBs to be flashed with Ubuntu 20.04, sent to me

      • Conference equipment sent to Austin, will arrive Sunday

    • Getting going with comms with Billy! We selected a router and it's arrived. He's got it going with RouterOS as well and hooked up to a 900 MHz antenna. Progress progress progress!!!!

 

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Create task boards for arm and navigation

  • Set up conference equipment

  • Look into bay PCs


Firmware

@Nicolas Palmar

UPDATES

  • Significant discussion have occured in firmware land:

    • Need to redefine our system architecture to meet our current skill level

    • Testing most basic odrive config → litmus test for if we need to rearch our firmware

  • New team of folks ready to go (Josh + friends)

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Major focus of the team in the next week

      • Continue exploring O-Drives

      • reflash new firmware on odrives

      • test basic config

      • try to decide odrive architecture moving forward


Science

@Clare Burnley

UPDATES

  • Science members coming off midterms, starting to get to

  • Working on running tests w/ sensors and dry lab chemicals

  • Working on interpreting results & backing it up with data for the science plan

  • Have living document for science plan

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Conduct lab testing


Business

@Anna Fyfe

UPDATES

  • Training two new members with the reimbursement process

  • New members going to be looking at written reimbursement instructions

  • Looking at the website/wix right now, sometimes its hard to pin new members down

ACTION ITEMS

  • Keep training new members

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W2022 Leadership

 


CIRC

URC

CIRC

URC

CIRC

50kg mass max fielded, 70kg total

50kg at the beginning of mission

1.2m x 1.2m x 1.2m box

Fit through a 0.8m door

  • Missions are similar overall