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
W2022 Leadership
CIRC
I think we should pivot towards attending CIRC and stop applying for URC.
What is CIRC?
“Entry into CIRC Summer 2023 is limited and subject to the approval of the organizing committee.”
Apply through invitation only.
Competition Dates: August 11th - 14th 2023
Interesting CIRC rules quotes:
“Teams who feel their rovers are not ready are encouraged to attend and participate to test their rovers on site and learn from other participants!”
“Teams at the event are able to participate in tasks even if their rover does not comply with all rules to use the time to test and debug their rover at a task site. Points earned may not count towards the final rankings.”
Rules and Regulations
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