Flight Analysis Procedures Design

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Flight Analysis Procedures Design #11

Closed jrn90 closed 2 years ago

jrn90 commented 2 years ago

Tracking the steps needed to get Lincoln airborne and testing with our secured firmware for Flightcore.

@jrn90

[x] #12
[x] #13
[x] #18

@lincolnb-rse

[x] Flesh out Autonomous Tests for baseline operations
[x] #23
[x] Firmware calibration steps
[x] Run test / pre flight / post flight procedures by Dennis
[x] Create parameter dump procedures to speed up flashing

@Spinner-99

[x] Retrieve some example flight analysis so we have something to compare our procedures to

@bpmooch

[x] Analyze initial flight logs, write some notes on automated analysis

bpmooch commented 2 years ago

There was a discussion today covering what we are actually analyzing in these flight tests. We don't have our arms fully around it. In order to figure it out, we need to gather more data on what other people are doing, and run more flights to see what data we have available. Below are some random notes from the meeting:

GPS truth data vs flight log is one example of valuable flight analysis
How do we define acceptable deltas in flight comparisons? How do we quantify it using standard deviation?
Qualitative analysis is also important. How do we describe the attributes we are looking for in a flight, hard numbers aside?
What external variables need to be tracked when analyzing a flight. Weather was the immediate call out. What metrics can we track related to weather?

jrn90 commented 2 years ago

* [ ]  Automate custom firmware delivery?

Not required for this iteration. We need additional processes & hardware in place before moving forward. Should be kept on the radar for the future.

bpmooch commented 2 years ago

What additional processes & hardware do we need? Let's get it into a ticket

jrn90 commented 2 years ago

@bpmooch captured in #18

bpmooch commented 2 years ago

System should plot metrics alongside data of another flight
There should be a quick summary at the top, potentially a pass/fail indicator
Currently, gopro helmet cam is used to capture video that contains some flight relevant data (date, time, wind conditions). Would be useful to associate this video with a flight log

lincolnb-rse commented 2 years ago

List of graphs to be included: Raw Acceleration Estimator Watchdog Thrust and Magnetic Field GPS Noise & Jamming GPS Uncertainty Acceleration Power Spectral Density Vibration Metrics

bpmooch commented 2 years ago

software needs to design something at this point in https://github.com/render-se/SRA/issues/59