November 23, 2022

Owned by Clare Burnley
Last updated: Nov 24, 2022 by Austin Tailon Huang
3 min read

General Announcements

@Austin Tailon Huang

 

PDR

 

SAR Plan for Next Term

  • Aim to approach SAR but not destroy the team

  • By end of term - establish a developmental roadmap leading up to SAR

  • Establish bare minimum list of project milestones we think we need for hitting a video

    • Drivable drivetrain

    • Controllable arm joints (+ rviz/gazebo sim)

    • Gripper testing

    • Science mech sample collection capabilities

    • ArCU code recognition footage

    • etc.

  • Milestone checks every 3 weeks

  • If milestone checks have not been hit by 2 weeks before SAR, pivot towards CIRC development and create a video at end of term to showcase rover functionality

 

News from the SDC

  • Supporting CIRC!

  • Can use tron classes next term for recruiting through Prof Teetstra

  • Potentially can defer some exams - TBD

 

Workspace Updates

  • Bay has been reorganized (in terms of layout)

  • New PC coming in two weeks

  • E-Waste, Donations, Trash Sorting

 

W2023 Team Lead (in-training) Requirements

  • Attend SDC meetings (twice per term)

  • Manage and review team email with Austin (keep an eye on it, message me if you need help responding)

  • Give prof Teetstra updates on the team (informal 1-1 meetings, can do it remotely if required with Austin)

  • Assist with in person recruiting

  • Coordinate in-person work sessions in the bay (make sure stuff is happening, don’t need to attend everything)

  • Intention is to get someone who is interested in being team lead get familiar with the role

 

Austin’s Offboarding Task-List

  • I need to reduce my team commitment after PDR is submitted to wrap up the academic term

  • Austin will remain available Monday-Thurs evenings to coordinate technical meetings/share information; tentatively available on weekends on a case by case basis for all of the winter term

  • New systems pages for all projects to be completed before next year over winter break (great informational resources to describe our main projects from end to end)

  • W2023 roadmap established / URC-SAR criteria

  • Safety captain training page + bay organization completed by end of term

Mechanical

@Austin Tailon Huang @Chanpakorn Chaiklahan

UPDATES

  • Comms Stand / Battery Mount / Ebox design moving forward - preliminary CAD completed, formal CAD review to happen next week

    • Weekly meetings on Monday at 9 for everyone interested

  • Science drill mechanism targeted to be completed by this time next week

  • Two new mech coleads secured!

    • Josh Harper + Thomas Valer

    • Will also take on safety/operations related roles

ACTION ITEMS

  • CAD spins for comms stand / battery mount / ebox to be completed

 

  • Encoder refitting for arm / drivetrain? thoughts

Electrical

@Ari Wasch @Logan Hartford

UPDATES

  • Non performance non firmware testing for PDB and BMS has been completed

  • Some errors on PDB; will likely need one more revision done for PDB

  • Logan and wolfie to write basic FW code to test PDB

  • Blocked on BMS for FW testing

  • Data can be sent from base station to antennae

  • Needs to verify which data is being sent to which

  • Current amplifier is not suitable for long range transmission

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ACTION ITEMS

  • Test PDB and redesign it as necessary

  • Order BMS

  • Determine what amplifier we need

  • Do range testing not this weekend but the weekend after

  • Find someone to test antennae and support billy in person next term

Software

@Orson Marmon @Keyon Jerome

UPDATES

  • PM board on github projects has been created

  • Every task for software projects will be put in the github project board

  • Need to fix merge issue (CI/CD) 

  • In person conference stuff has been shipped

  • USBS for linux also with Keyon - to be formatted in December

  • Nico and Cheng working on Nav

    • Cheng getting up to date with nav framework

    • Nico working on reading ArCU codes

  • Arm Controller Blocked by CI/CD

ACTION ITEMS

  • Create linux usbs

  • Fix CI/CD

Firmware

@Nicolas Palmar

UPDATES

  • Finally got an odrive running this week!

  • Ramped velocity and P control working on the gripper maxon motor using CUI relative encoder

  • Joshua has been pulled into current FW work

ACTION ITEMS

  • Fully understand config file generation and vcontrol error for current odrives

  • Start testing RLS encoder afterwards

Science

@Clare Burnley

UPDATES

  • Progress Updates

    • ninhydrin testing! getting everyone ready and aligned, deciding how many core members will be in the bay

 

  • Onboarding Updates

    • new members are good, somewhat hard to keep engagement when we don’t have much to do

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • understanding the science mission/what future term(s) will require

 

  • Misc.

    • Anything you’d like to bring up

Business

@Anna Fyfe

UPDATES

  • Progress Updates

    • What has your team been working on? (Link CONFLUENCE task pages)

    • How’re these tasks going?

    • Have you completed any key steps/tasks?

      • Is the completed task a prerequisite to anything?

    • Have you encountered any blockers?

      • Do you need to set up a meeting with another lead?

    • (One bullet per update)

 

  • Onboarding Updates

    • How’re the new members doing?

      • How’s the training going?

      • What’re they working on?

      • How’re they feeling?

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Major focus of the team in the next week

 

  • Misc.

    • Anything you’d like to bring up