Applied Engineering Research Lab

Projects

Public-facing project summaries live here. Deep technical material, validation details, theory, and logs now live in the integrated documentation section.

Flagship Project Hub

Flight Control System documentation

The FCS hub is the technical backbone of the site: project overview, technical approach, theory, timeline, committee ownership, and the running log of validation work.

FCS overview Technical approach Timeline and validation

Active This Cycle

Physical Quadcopter Build

● Active

Taking a quadcopter from bare frame through procurement, power integration, wiring, calibration, and first hover. Every decision is documented so the next team can understand why, not just what.

HardwareElectronicsTesting

Open documentation

Simulation & Controls Stack

● Active

A Python-based 6-DOF rigid body simulation for modeling quadcopter flight dynamics and testing feedback controllers in software before they touch hardware.

PythonControlsDynamics

Open documentation

Future Direction

What we're building toward — not committed for this cycle, but the direction the current work is laying foundations for.

Custom Flight Controller

Future Direction

Longer-term direction — if Cycle 1 produces clean enough simulation and hardware foundations, we want to move toward a custom flight control system rather than off-the-shelf firmware. Not this cycle, but what we're building toward.

EmbeddedC++Future

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