1. Caleb Hamilton James Majors Jon Garr
UAV System Cycle 3
Caleb Hamilton
James Majors
Jon Garr

2. Cycle Progress Completed: User Story 1: connect modem
Modems are functioning correctly between computers
User Story 2: boot Gumstix
Gumstix is booting and we have tested code on it
User Story 3: send GPS
Groundstation parses NMEA string
GPS is able to be sent via TCP
User Story 6: view vital plane data
Only text right now
Others:
Two way comunication with data setting and gathering
Accelorometers working

3. Cycle Progress In Progress: Incomplete
(near completion) User Story 5: receive data from plane
Mock data able to be set/gathered
Only thing would be implementing real data
User Story 4: view location
GPS only sends correctly via TCP
3-wire serial problem
Incomplete
Take a view picture
Take/Release control of plane

4. Design

6. Process Collaboration and Coding Testing
Most work was done on campus by all of us
Python code was coded by James
Testing
Python code was extensively tested against the groundstation
Groundstation needed lots of rework
Changed the dataOutputs to write lines
Added a new send/receive loop for python communication

7. Process
Results
Again, testing was definitely our strong point. We had the new Python code to test mock plane data setting and sending
Unfortunately, our serial error(s) prevented us from finalizing our GPS sending from Arduino/Gumstix to groundstation

8. Lessons Learned - Success
Simulating the data was a good idea because it allowed extensive testing for sending/receiving and setting/gathering
Originally tested from python to groundstation using a null modem connector, but we moved onto the wireless modems and they worked fine (see demo)

9. Lessons Learned - Failure
3-wire serial problems: could not get the Gumstix or Arduino to send via serial because the data output was consistently incorrect. (see demo)
Communication was still somewhat lacking which in turn slowed our progress.

10. Future Plans New and Improved Communication
Can easily be added to both ends (ground station and python code)
Python code will work on Gumstix so setting up real data gathering is the definite next step