UAV Forge

Background

UAV Forge is a multidisciplinary engineering senior design project with a focus on designing, building and programming unmanned aerial vehicles in order to complete the flight missions under a time limit. Through research and hands-on experience, students are able to work towards creating an autonomous aircraft. This project, UAV Forge, aims to allow students to gain technical skills and learn more about the engineering process. Through inspiring innovation and teamwork between the different students in MAE, EECS, CPE, CSE and CS majors, students are able to come out of the project with a broader knowledge of the different engineering fields.

Goal and Objectives

UAV Forge must design, manufacture, and test our own UAV from scratch, and develop a competitive design that could both win competitions and be applicable to challenges in the industry, such as companies involved in UAV research like Amazon’s package-delivering.

Our project goal is to design and build a multirotor UAV from scratch. This involves being able to have a fully automated takeoff and landing program, demonstrate flight autonomy, an ability to transmit UAV telemetry, hold an image capturing system, and finally being able to perform an airdrop of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), carrying in a standard 8 oz water bottle.

Conclusions

Our team is working hard this year to design a multirotor vehicle, develop it to be fully autonomous, and build an autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. We have finished our preliminary design this Fall quarter, and are working on fabrication and testing this upcoming Winter quarter. We are all excited to apply the technical and administrative knowledge gained in order to strive to be better engineers and reach for excellence.

Team Website

https://sites.uci.edu/uavforge/

Team Contacts