RobotX 2026

Weekly Sprint 7 Meeting

April 20, 2026

We are so back (in Notion)

Meeting Overview

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Primary Semester Goal

Vehicle readiness video prior to finals

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Agenda

1. Test Cancelled
2. Test Planning 101
3. Status Update
4. Sprint Progress

Upcoming Events

• Work Sessions M-Th 6-8PM
• 4/23 Dry Test
• 4/25 Next Lake Test

Things to Know

• New handbook dropped

Test Cancelled

• Software wasn’t dry tested

  • Behavior tree

• Move test plan to 4/25 instead (location TBD)

  • Let’s not overwhelm with too many people
  • No Thomas ;( no car
  • Cars: Sean, Shrey, Aaron
  • Things: 2 boats, 4 tall buoys OR 4 shorter buoys

• Dry test 4/18 software code at a prior time than Thursday (4/25 Dry Test)→ Tuesday?

  • MetaGate position uncertainty
  • TF errors (if any)
  • Readiness behavior tree response

  Test Planning

  • Rewrite “detailed” dry test plan and lake test plan for 4/25 Lake Test
    • Step-by-step such that it is reproducible by anyone
  • Blueboat at Sweetwater
    • Shakedown BB05 if it works, do gates
    • Bring BB04 for software backup
  • Drone at Waterworks or bust
    • Bring BB01 for GPS
    • Bring Anker

Status Update

Bills and Purchases

• Do we need to buy anything last minute?
  • Mouse stuff for orange boat
    • Unapproved
• Missing parts
  • Cooling fan? What was the situation on this?
  • Go to the Spring26 spreadsheet, find the thing, and change the status to needs purchase

BlueBoat 05

• Electronics
  • PCBs (besides the logic shifters) are assembled
    • We are going to reuse the estop harness from RB26
  • Estop harness was added on Sunday and is now working
  • Need to debug light tower - Nick
    • Most likely we are just going to reuse the RB26 light tower relay board
    • Firmware likely needs to be re-flashed → Airanna
  • Need to add 5V regulator power powering the Pi → Works (Able to independently power the pi)
    • We should just need to unplug an XT60(?), to replace the source power of the Pi from the ESC to a separate regulator
      • Someone needs to tune/check the potentiometer of the buck converter → Marcus and Brian
    • Power switch plugs directly to pi
  • Need to figure out RC settings in order to directly control the RC → Shrey and Marcus
    • Nick has documentation → someone not Nick → Shrey and Marcus
• Parts fabrication
  • Print sensor covers
  • Soldering needs to happen:
    • What stuff do we need to solder to replicate the research boats? → Thalia/Nick
    • Nothing left