VAMUdeS #

I joined VAMUdeS as an undergrad student as soon as I started my Bachelor's Degree of Electrical Engineering. It was a lot of fun and definitely the best part of my studies. The projects I led include:

• Create a georeferenced aerial surveillance system with a verified 3 metres raw accuracy (from a vibrating drone flying 60 metres above ground at 20 m/s)
• Design a control GUI to monitor and control said surveillance system, including filtering data based on geofences
• Upgrade the three antenna systems and manage RF interference between the manual pilot, autopilot, and camera antennas
• Design a hexacopter drone from the ground up (although the frame was adjusted with simulations from another mechanical engineering student)
• Implement network QoS for an aerial surveillance system with sometimes very poor bandwidth
• Create obstacle avoidance algorithms
• Design a few power circuits to keep the drones flying
• Pass on the knowledge to the next generation of Vamudiens

Our crowning achievements include winning the AUVSI-SUAS competition three years in a row. Check out our team's 2016, 2017 and 2018 technical report papers to learn what this is all about.