Client Meeting: November 30th - ProstheticFalconry/Capstone GitHub Wiki

Client needs design requirements from group for marking/feedback purposes. What value does the correlation matrix add? Realized in the design report that we have no way for the quadcopter to understand where the operator of the quadcopter is. The quadcopter does no understand how the quadcopter drifts and it doesn't understand its orientation in relation to the quadcopter operator. Discuss with clients options for this. Require positional beacon and thus we must have our control commands for left and right relative to the operator not the quadcopter itself. So long as the quadcopter can find a reference point and understand the relative commands from an operator. Major priority to have this addressed.

How feasible is having this problem solved via camera, inertial reference and machine learning? Unlikely as the camera would need to be facing the person and the coding of this would be incredibly complex. As long as quadcopter knows where it is in space and the two beacons for relativistic location knowledge. How do we interface with flight controller? What do you want to be able to say? Basic function of what a remote control can do. A lot of this will be covered by machine learning portion from client. Our job right now is to make the quadcopter stable in flight. However, we offered to provide the control loops and commands for very simple commands like go left, go right. We need to control direction like go left, and the machine learning portion from client will need to teach the quadcopter how to facilitate the movement in and of itself. Don't have to worry too much about the flight controllers, worry more about pitch, roll and yaw varying when the quadcopter is skewed relative to the position of the operator (when the base frame is rotated in the x-y plane relative to the operator frame).

Regarding flight time we are currently 4 minutes short of our specifications. We can economize weight in the chassis but Adam suggests that we report a weight for when the frame is printed in carbon fibre. Could also scale the battery up to receive a larger flight time or use better motors. Either way the main limiting factor of our flight time is the money we are willing to spend for our flight time. Flight time is lower due to the weight of the actuator and payload. For a battery twice as strong our flight time increases by 50%. This would help us reach our flight time. We can begin flight testing at the beginning of March. can run quadcopter to failure if needed.

Regarding budget we need to give clients our revised parts list so they can purchase our parts for us. Most of our parts our Digikey but some are Adafruit and Sparkfun. Are we adding the weight of the screws and nuts for the weight budget. Yes, and if so we can knock some weight off of our quadcopter by having nuts and screws not be metal.