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Lab 02: NIST OTL Course Flight Lab
Lab Metadata
Weather: Partly cloudy, 68 degrees Fahrenheit, 10kt winds gusting 15kts
Location: Purdue Turf Farm
Airspace: Class D airspace, located inside a FRIA
Team Members: Ryan Shurtleff, Erik Krellner, Kim Hongsik, Trigg Strawhorn
Drone Make & Model: DJI Mavic 2 Pro (G)
Lab Setup & Operation:
The NIST Open Test Lane course setup was followed in accordance with official NIST documents. Each of the three buckets was placed 10 feet from each other in a line, with the drone case and landing pad in the front respectively.
The test requires 2 people, although we had the two extra people in our group act as visual observers. One person is the PIC, controlling the sUAS. The other person is the proctor, calling out movement commands and running a stopwatch for timing purposes.
The proctor will issue two commands, a movement command and an action command. The movement command tells the PIC where to maneuver the sUAS, and the action command tells the PIC what to do once they have moved into position. The two action commands that were used were:
1 - Take a photograph of two separate targets that should be visible to the PIC with only a tilt of the gimbal
2 - Take-off or land
The proctor would refer to the image below to issue the commands and direct the PIC.
Results:
After reviewing the pictures, I found that I would have gotten maximum points based on the clarity and completeness of the rings of circles printed in the buckets. As well as that, I was able to perfectly land within the ring on the landing pad as shown below:
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