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Lab 9 Avionics

Group 4 – Nolan Lach, Jacob Sieber, Ryan Pirro, Elijah Meadows, Madison Baker, & Venkata Devapatla

Introduction

This lab consisted of working on our Believer’s avionics system, adding additional sensors to our avionics system and getting everything to properly communicate with each other.
GCS Connection & Parameters We started by connecting our CubePilot to ground control with a USB cable. With Ground Control working we confirmed the Cube was properly responding.
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Telemetry Setup

Next, we installed the RFD900 telemetry module to enable wireless communication between the Cube and Ground Control.
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While we still had the cube plugged into the USB to supply power, it was now talking to Ground control using the antenna’s we connected.

Airspeed Sensor

We connected the MS4525DO airspeed sensor to the CubePilot using the provided I2C cable. The pitot probe tubing was installed onto the correct differential pressure port.
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We then had to modify the ARSPDX parameters to properly incorporate the sensor. After this we could confirm if the sensor was working by blowing into it and seeing if it was picked up and shown on ground control.

GPS Setup

We attempted to configure our GPS, however we ran into technical difficulties, with the GPS with it not properly connecting, even after we attempted to reflash the software. We decided we would revisit this problem next lab because of time constraints.
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