Meeting Minutes - 2017

April

19April 2017

Official flight test with sponsor.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
17 April 2017

Final report progress.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
13 April 2017

Final 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 Burchell
12April 2017

Web interface completed.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
11 April 2017

Timed rehearsal for final presentation.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
10 April 2017

Preparing 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 Burchell
8 April 2017

Live 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 Burchell
5 April 2017

Working 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 Burchell
3 April 2017

Looking 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 Burchell

March

26 March 2017

Bi-weekly meeting with Dr. Hooker

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
23 March 2017

Continued progress, same as Mar 18.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
18 March 2017

Color 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 Burchell
6 - 17March 2017

Long spring break thanks to schedule conflict between FAMU and FSU

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
2 March 2017

Emergency 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 Burchell

February

27 February 2017

Final Design Presentation

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
26 February 2017

Completing 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 Burchell
20 February 2017

Completed 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 Burchell
13 February 2017

Working 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 Burchell
9 February 2017

Bi-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 Burchell
6 February 2017

Working 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 Burchell

January

30 January 2017

Weekly 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 Burchell
26 January 2017

Bi-weekly meeting with Dr. Hooker to discuss progress.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho
23 January 2017

Weekly 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 Yonter
23 January 2017

Meeting with Dr. Roberts to discuss object detection limitations and options going forward.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell
16 January 2017

Look 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 Burchell
12 January 2017

First 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 Burchell

Meeting Minutes - 2016

December

8 December 2016

End 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 Burchell
5 December 2016

Last minute meeting to triple check the report prior to submission.

Alexandra Borgesen, Halil Yonter
4 December 2016

Meeting to review the completed final report.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell

November

31 November 2016

Bi-weekly meeting with Dr. Hooker to discuss progress.

Alexandra Borgesen, Shawn Cho, Halil Yonter
28 November 2016

Working 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 Burchell
22 November 2016

Meeting with the intent of finalizing the initial poster design and discussing what sections to include

Alexandra Borgesen, Sarah Hood, Halil Yonter
21 November 2016

Final website design finalized

Alexandra Borgesen, Shawn Cho, Halil Yonter
17 November 2016

Practice run-through for final presentation.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
16 November 2016

Emergency 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 Burchell
15 November 2016

Working 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 Burchell
10 November 2016

Bi-weekly meeting with Dr. Hooker to discuss progress. Continued working on presentation slides.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
3 November 2016

Bi-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 Burchell

October

31 October 2016

Propeller 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 Yonter
30 October 2016

Planning stages for the propeller testing, discussing needs and what parameters to look for.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
27 October 2016

Bi-weekly meeting with Dr. Hooker to discuss progress.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
27 October 2016

A 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 Burchell
25 October 2016

Initial website design was finalized.

Alexandra Borgesen, Halil Yonter, Shawn Cho
24 October 2016

Midterm report was finalized and thoroughly reviewed. How to handle the peer reviews was also discussed.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Peter Burchell
20 October 2016

Progress 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 Burchell
20 October 2016

Meeting with Dr. Roberts to discuss progress.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
18 October 2016

Midterm report was evaluated and parts were assigned.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
13 October 2016

Rehearsal and last minute changes for the powerpoint presentation on October 14th

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
11 October 2016

The powerpoint presentation was put together and slides were assigned.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Peter Burchell
10 October 2016

A theme was decided upon for the presentation. Assignments were made.

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
6 October 2016

Meeting 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 Burchell
5 October 2016

Presentation 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 Burchell
4 October 2016

Meeting with Mr. Merrick to go through his lab and look at parts.

Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell

September

29 September 2016

First meeting with Dr. Hooker

Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
27 September 2016

Needs Assessment responsibilities were assigned and brainstorming commenced

Alexandra Borgesen, Cody Campbell, Halil Yonter, Sarah Hood, Shawn Cho, Peter Burchell
21 September 2016

Meeting 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 Burchell
20 September 2016

Tentative 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 Burchell
16 September 2016

Halil 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 Burchell
15 September 2016

Introductory 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