CanberraUAV

Notes for meeting chair/minute takers

2013 October 15

present:

• Chris Gough
• Darrell Burkey
• Fergus McCracken
• Grant Morphett
• Matthew Ridley
• James Pattison
• Paul Warren
• Andrew Tridgell
• Stephen Dade
• Jack Pittar
• Andrew Moss

Report on in-progress items

OBC2014

• The Beaver has been upgraded with a more rugged undercarriage.

• This Sunday will be flying at Geoff’s place.

• Objectives will be

  • Testing that the Beaver can cope with the rough runway at Geoff’s place
  • Wing/Tail mounted camera testing
  • (If fitted) imaging system capture and detection testing
  • (If done in time) Running through check-lists and procedure documents

Piksi GPS

• Developers should be starting to manufacture the hardware in the next couple of weeks.
• It is likely that we’ll get our modules before Christmas.
• No update of the software (RTK in particular) side of things.

Arboretum

• no action noted

Quadcopter workshop

• no action noted

Bixler workshop

• no action noted

ANU visit

• Tridge and Stephen will be visiting the ANU on 3pm Wednesday.

mu-thermal-camera

• no action noted

SAR-scenarios

• no action noted

schools-program

• Back in Canberra
• Given the last-minute issues with the Huggin airframe, they did quite well!
• Successful flight, but they weren’t able to decipher the text on the ground.

OBCHints

• no action noted

Other business

AGM

• As per the Model Association Rules, we are required to have our AGM in the next Month or so.
• Will be held on Mumble.
• Possible dates 4th or 11th November. Need to give 21 days notice, which will be done via the private mailing list.
• Stephen had some possible ideas for changes to the constitution regarding clarifying our not-for-profit status and membership management.
• At the minimum we need to have elections for position holders and a statement of accounts.
• Our accounts need to audited too.

Antenna Tracker

• Matt has most of the hardware sorted out and working.
• Tridge has put an antenna tracking module into the APM source code which will control the servos on the tracker.
• Should be able to test it using SITL mode on the APM.

Tail Mounted Camera

• Primary objective will be to debug the bottle drop mechanism
• Agreed to buy a cheap ($40) self-contained unit from Hobbyking.

MAVProxy/GCS Workshop

• Will hold a how-to-use MAVProxy workshop on 27th October in the afternoon.
• Chris and Stephen will work on the documentation.

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