CanberraUAV

Notes for meeting chair/minute takers

2013 October 21

present:

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

Report on in-progress items

OBC2014

• The Beaver has been upgraded with a more rugged undercarriage.
• Sunday flying at Geoff’s place.
  • 2 out of 3 bottle drops were successful
  • Runway at Geoff’s is probably too rugged for Beaver.
  • Tuned Beaver well in the air
  • 3 Days to repair Beaver after flip on landing
  • Perhaps investigate some rudder control
  • Going to get new big wheels for the plane
  • Great oil result - no oil appeared anywhere near the camera area which is fantastic
  • New bottle drop mechanism and new bottle testing - Grant needs to sort it out.

Piksi GPS

• no action noted

Arboretum

• no action noted

Quadcopter workshop

• no action noted

Bixler workshop

• no action noted

ANU visit

• Tridge and Stephen visited the ANU on 3pm Wednesday.
• Dr Rob Mahonie at RSIC. Around 12 students.
• Rob one of the original authors of DCM - direct cosine matrix.
• A couple ideas for collaboration.
• Enquires regarding ESC data feedback and interesting discussion.
• A one man team for UAV Challenge was there.

mu-thermal-camera

• no action noted

SAR-scenarios

• no action noted

schools-program

• no action noted

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.
• Set for 11th November.
• 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

• no action noted

Tail Mounted Camera

• Cameras didn’t arrive until today so no testing yet

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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