Project Backlog

Ideas and upcoming builds - not started yet unless noted.

Vision-Based Precision Landing

Research

Autonomous precision landing using AprilTag detection and visual servoing. Downward-facing camera detects markers for centimeter-accurate touchdowns on a custom 450mm quad.

ROS2PX4OpenCVC++Gazebo

GPS-Denied Navigation

Research

Visual-inertial odometry for indoor drone positioning. Fuses monocular camera with IMU readings and Kalman filtering for drift correction in warehouses and tunnels.

PythonROS 2OpenCVIMU Fusion

Aerial Thermal Mapping

Not Started

Drone-based thermal imaging for building energy audits. FLIR camera captures georeferenced thermal imagery, stitched into orthomosaics that highlight heat loss areas.

PythonFLIR SDKOpenCVQGISArduPilot

Custom Battery Management System

Not Started

BMS 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.

C++ArduinoLTC6811PCB Design

LiDAR Point Cloud to Terrain Mesh

Not Started

Automated pipeline converting raw airborne LiDAR scans into classified terrain meshes. Ground filtering, noise removal, and configurable-resolution mesh generation for GIS.

PythonOpen3DPDALBlenderNumPy

Multi-Drone Swarm Coordination

Not Started

Task allocation and collision avoidance framework for multi-drone survey operations. Graph-based optimization assigns areas based on battery state, position, and payload.

PythonMAVLinkROS 2NetworkX

Dual-Axis Solar Tracker

Not Started

ML-optimized solar panel positioning using a lightweight TF Lite model on a microcontroller. Predicts optimal angles from time, weather, and historical irradiance data.

PythonTensorFlow LiteArduinoStepper Motors

Acoustic Wildlife Monitoring

Not Started

Drone-deployed audio capture with on-device spectrogram processing and species classification. Key challenge is filtering motor noise from MEMS microphone recordings.

PythonLibrosaRaspberry PiMEMS Microphones

CFD Wind Tunnel Validation

Not Started

Comparing ANSYS Fluent CFD simulations against subsonic wind tunnel measurements for a NACA 2412 airfoil. Quantifying lift, drag, and pressure distribution accuracy.

ANSYS FluentMATLABPythonSolidWorks
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