Official flight test with sponsor.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellFinal report progress.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellFinal presentation day! Gimbal is working, fresh landing gear are on, everything is in working order. The project won the "Best Project" award in Robotics category.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellWeb interface completed.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellTimed rehearsal for final presentation.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellPreparing slides for final presentation. Adapting slides from design presentation. Web interface up and running.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellLive flight test. Drone flew beautifully, but crashed due to poor battery. Injuries include two broken propellers. Landing gear to be replaced.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellWorking on the operation manual, distributing assignments and planning ahead for presentations. Ubuntu needs to be setup so FlytOS runs on startup. Interface needs to be organized.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellLooking for a way to automate the range of the color filtering process by reading in from HTML forms as determined by selecting a color on the color picker. Also ordering last set of propellers.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellBi-weekly meeting with Dr. Hooker
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellContinued progress, same as Mar 18.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellColor wheel was implemented into the latest object detection algorithm. Work was applied towards finding a good way of portraying the USNG data on the server. Mechanical Engineers worked further on assembling the drone’s frame.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellLong spring break thanks to schedule conflict between FAMU and FSU
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellEmergency meeting staged to complete work on slides before practice-runs. Also, support from Navstik in India verified.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellFinal Design Presentation
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellCompleting slides for design presentation, rehearsal and review of current slides. Calculations verified by Dr.Harvey.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellCompleted integration of the carrier board, communication pixhawk is nominal, additional flight controllers are able to interact, and USNG is running, all using the wifi network.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellWorking on image processing and web interface. Testing color filtering algorithm and pedestrian tracking solution. Color filtering algorithm is immediately determined to be the best option. Ubuntu works, wifi works, and the image processing runs.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellBi-weekly meeting with Dr. Hooker to discuss progress. Meeting followed by a discussion on the current segmentation code.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellWorking on getting the USB wifi working with the TX1. At present stage we know the driver is not compatible with the kernel—update: turns out the TX1 transfers with a wifi module.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellWeekly meeting, this time connecting the board to an external source and trying to install/run it through Ubuntu. Perfect the USNG code.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellBi-weekly meeting with Dr. Hooker to discuss progress.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn ChoWeekly meeting to ensure progress is being made on the project. Discussing parts, camera issues, and handling orders through Mr. Merrick.
Alexandra Borgesen, Shawn Cho, Halil YonterMeeting with Dr. Roberts to discuss object detection limitations and options going forward.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody CampbellLook into how to develop onboard apps, as well as review communication stage with the FlytOS developers for a slight camera issue.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellFirst meeting of the spring semester to catch up on progress made last semester, and discuss the semester ahead.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellEnd of year team-bonding experience/meeting to discuss plans over break, as well as enjoy some raspberry pie in good humor.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Peter BurchellLast minute meeting to triple check the report prior to submission.
Alexandra Borgesen, Halil YonterMeeting to review the completed final report.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellBi-weekly meeting with Dr. Hooker to discuss progress.
Alexandra Borgesen, Shawn Cho, Halil YonterWorking meeting to finalize the formatting of the poster, while working together to complete the introduction and summary. Also, tasks regarding the final report were delegated.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellMeeting with the intent of finalizing the initial poster design and discussing what sections to include
Alexandra Borgesen, Sarah Hood, Halil YonterFinal website design finalized
Alexandra Borgesen, Shawn Cho, Halil YonterPractice run-through for final presentation.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellEmergency meeting staged to complete work on slides before practice-runs. Also, support from Navstik in India verified.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellWorking meeting to discuss slides, propeller testing data, and what rotor system to apply on the drone.
Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellBi-weekly meeting with Dr. Hooker to discuss progress. Continued working on presentation slides.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellBi-weekly meeting with Dr. Roberts to discuss progress. Started work on slides for final presentation. Tasks were assigned.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellPropeller testing day; testing 12 different propeller to determine whether the design should follow a 6-rotor or 4-rotor design.
Alexandra Borgesen, Shawn Cho, Halil YonterPlanning stages for the propeller testing, discussing needs and what parameters to look for.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellBi-weekly meeting with Dr. Hooker to discuss progress.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellA conference was staged with Navstik, FlytOS developers in India to discuss the possibility of using their software for object detection.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Shawn Cho, Halil Yonter, Peter BurchellInitial website design was finalized.
Alexandra Borgesen, Halil Yonter, Shawn ChoMidterm report was finalized and thoroughly reviewed. How to handle the peer reviews was also discussed.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Peter BurchellProgress was made on the midterm report. Gantt charts were discussed, as well as house of quality and other options we had.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Peter BurchellMeeting with Dr. Roberts to discuss progress.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellMidterm report was evaluated and parts were assigned.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellRehearsal and last minute changes for the powerpoint presentation on October 14th
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellThe powerpoint presentation was put together and slides were assigned.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Peter BurchellA theme was decided upon for the presentation. Assignments were made.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellMeeting in the senior design lab to go over the parts and organize them between what was needed and what we didn’t need. What parts we might be looking for was also discussed. An inventory was made of the parts available.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Peter BurchellPresentation dates were determined and emailed out to the advisor (Dr. Roberts), professor (Dr. Hooker), reviewers (Dr. Harvey and Dr. Foo), and Mr. Merrick. It was scheduled for Friday, October 14th at 2pm.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellMeeting with Mr. Merrick to go through his lab and look at parts.
Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellFirst meeting with Dr. Hooker
Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellNeeds Assessment responsibilities were assigned and brainstorming commenced
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellMeeting was arranged with Mr. David Merrick, sponsor and representative of the Emergency Management Homeland Security Program at FSU. We discussed details regarding his wants/needs, and were given access to (most) anything he had in the lab.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Peter BurchellTentative leadership positions were assigned for everyone else in the group as the code of conduct was completed. A meeting was arranged with the sponsor to discuss the project.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellHalil Yonter was elected team leader by majority vote via messenger. A doodle was made for everyone to indicate their availability for future meetings. It was determined that Tuesdays and Thursday at 2pm are the ideal meeting time.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter BurchellIntroductory meeting for the team, giving everyone a chance to get to know each other. Contact information was exchanged and work began on the code of conduct, giving every member of the team the chance to express what they would expect of each other. A google drive folder was established.
Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Peter Burchell