UAV Summer Plan
- Pre Summer (Till 05-17-2026)
- Test drone + boat communication (at Couch Park) → Sunday 05-09-2026
- Re-modify GPS antenna
- Setup RSSI display for second radio
- Replace camera cable
- Remount heltec antenna + setup different frequency range
- Tighten up drone sim and tidy up repo
- Purchase drone floatation mechanism
- Drone + Boat lake test (05-16-2026)
- Summer (05-18-2026 - 08-10-2026)
- Hardware Modifications (05-18-2025 - 05-31-2026)
- Radar altimeter installation
- Floatation mechanism installation
- Tin drop-off mechanism
- Remote ID installation
- Object Detection Module (06-01-2026 - 06-14-2026)
- Simulation + Hardware implementations
- Objectives:
- Model that can detect buoys, landing pad and colored circles for tin dropoff
- Landing Pad Manufacturing (06-15-2026 - 06-21-2026)
- Purchase spray paints, laser-cut acrylic stencil and paint landing pad
- Precision Landing Module (06-22-2026 - 07-05-2026)
- Software implementation of precision landing module in sim and hardware
- Verify during flight test at couch park
- Software implementation of drone + boat mapping (07-06-2026 - 07-26-2026)
- Implement tin drop-off (07-27-2026 - 08-10-2026)
- Verify tin drop-off works at flight test
- Sim might be a stretch goal