Project Backlog
Ideas and upcoming builds - not started yet unless noted.
Vision-Based Precision Landing
ResearchAutonomous precision landing using AprilTag detection and visual servoing. Downward-facing camera detects markers for centimeter-accurate touchdowns on a custom 450mm quad.
GPS-Denied Navigation
ResearchVisual-inertial odometry for indoor drone positioning. Fuses monocular camera with IMU readings and Kalman filtering for drift correction in warehouses and tunnels.
Aerial Thermal Mapping
Not StartedDrone-based thermal imaging for building energy audits. FLIR camera captures georeferenced thermal imagery, stitched into orthomosaics that highlight heat loss areas.
Custom Battery Management System
Not StartedBMS for high-capacity LiPo packs on heavy-lift drones. Real-time cell voltage and temperature monitoring, active balancing, and cutoff protection on a compact custom PCB.
LiDAR Point Cloud to Terrain Mesh
Not StartedAutomated pipeline converting raw airborne LiDAR scans into classified terrain meshes. Ground filtering, noise removal, and configurable-resolution mesh generation for GIS.
Multi-Drone Swarm Coordination
Not StartedTask allocation and collision avoidance framework for multi-drone survey operations. Graph-based optimization assigns areas based on battery state, position, and payload.
Dual-Axis Solar Tracker
Not StartedML-optimized solar panel positioning using a lightweight TF Lite model on a microcontroller. Predicts optimal angles from time, weather, and historical irradiance data.
Acoustic Wildlife Monitoring
Not StartedDrone-deployed audio capture with on-device spectrogram processing and species classification. Key challenge is filtering motor noise from MEMS microphone recordings.
CFD Wind Tunnel Validation
Not StartedComparing ANSYS Fluent CFD simulations against subsonic wind tunnel measurements for a NACA 2412 airfoil. Quantifying lift, drag, and pressure distribution accuracy.