Updates

We have progressed towards testing and finalizing our experiment workflow and the virtual cloud environment.

This month we installed Ericsson 4G/5G RAN equipments at the Lake Wheeler site (LWL) and the Core equipments at the AERPAW Network Control Center (NCC) at NCSU Centennial campus, and integrated with the AERPAW fiber backplane (backhaul) between the LWL site and AERPAW NCC.

This month we continue to expand drone tests and check accuracy/reproducibility.

We tested our Phase 1 vehicles in the field.

Olusiji Medaiyese from UoL visited NC State University and worked with AERPAW pilots to collect data from various different drones and other RF sources using a high sampling oscilloscope from Keysight that was made available to them for their experiments.

AERPAW team worked on the manual PID tuning process of the large AERPAW UAV (the “Fat Bird”). The manual control was tightened for better responsiveness as well as reducing the limits on the maximum roll and pitch as the default was too aggressive for a drone of this size.

Six Terragraph radios from Facebook have been installed at CC8, CC10, CC11, and CC12, forming a daisy chain connectivity.