UAV & Robotics Systems

AQUAD: a single vehicle that flies to a site, submerges, maneuvers underwater and returns to the air, on one charge. Built against a brief targeting ocean worlds such as Europa.

Paired resonant Tesla coils beaming power and low-frequency data across a gap with no conductor between them, and the electromagnetic compatibility engineering needed to keep nearby avionics alive.

A heavy-lift carrier UAV acting as an airborne charging hub and data relay, letting micro-drones dock in flight to recharge, offload sensor data and borrow GPU cycles.

A multirotor whose thruster pods pivot and slide on servo-driven rails, shifting from a wide-span cruise configuration to a compact footprint that fits through doorways and pipe racks.

A set of Model Context Protocol servers that give an AI assistant real, typed control of a MAVLink vehicle — arm, take off, navigate, read telemetry — plus the terrain, vision and camera context it needs to make those calls sensibly.

A chat-to-fly interface for UAV operators: spoken or typed instructions translated directly into flight commands by a language model running on the aircraft, not in a datacentre.

A framework that streams RGB-D from a camera, drone or dataset and builds a 3D Gaussian-splat map as it goes, with a browser dashboard and an automated benchmark harness across five splatting engines.

A VTOL airframe driven by twin JetCat P60 micro-turbines instead of electric rotors: over 13 kg of combined thrust and fixed-wing cruise speeds, while keeping multirotor agility for vertical take-off.

A UAV that lifts a stabilized telescope clear of the worst of the atmosphere and works out what it is looking at on board, without needing a ground station in the loop.

One vehicle that drives across terrain it can cross and flies over terrain it cannot, with both propulsion systems sharing a single airframe, battery and controller.

Encrypting and signing a live vehicle telemetry link with lattice cryptography, on RISC-V compute small enough and cheap enough to fly, inside a millisecond budget.

Ascon protecting the command channel between a ground vehicle and an aircraft, with an encrypted heartbeat that fails both vehicles safe the moment the link dies.

A solid-state propulsion demonstrator with no moving parts, producing thrust by accelerating ions through a high-voltage field instead of burning propellant.

A pulse-power launcher that throws a small glider or instrument package to terrain a rover cannot reach, using a capacitor bank rather than a propellant charge.

A fixed-wing UAV whose wing-mounted array charges the flight pack in the air, pushing endurance past what the battery alone would give.

A thrust-stand study of a 40 mm electric ducted fan across 2S, 3S and 4S packs — measuring what the unit actually delivers over a full discharge, and what it costs thermally.