Hardware/Pixhawk Dev Call (BMS): Jan 12, 2021

Jan 12, 2021

Call Moderators

Agenda Items

  • DS-013 wrap up and release timeline
  • Implementation updates

Dail In

Direct link to the meeting:

Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

  • Jinger Zeng (Dronecode Foundation)
  • Ramón Roche (Dronecode Foundation)
  • Alex Klimaj (ARK)
  • Cis van Mierlo (NXP)
  • Iain Galloway (NXP)
  • Gary Gu (MMC)
  • Andrew Smith (Gumstix)
  • Cory Schwarzmiller (Freefly)
  • Sarp Karayigit (Maxwell Innovation)
  • Jacob Christ (Apium)

Project Coordination

The WG is hoping to ship the standard by Q1 2020 and is currently working on the last finishing touches to the spec, and we are going to continue the tracking of them on a project board hosted on GitHub (linked below)

Project Kanban Board: https://github.com/orgs/Dronecode/projects/5

  • Cleanup the source document, we cleared most (if not all) comments and a few sections that were not planned as part of the final release
  • We removed a section that tried defining the proper UAVCAN messages for a BMS, in favor of the work that is currently happening on the CAN WG
  • There are a few remaining details before completing the standard, dealing with multiple voltages, adding usage description and electrical characteristics to the pins on the pinout table, and making sure the state diagram is up to date.

Errata and Feedback

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