MULTI-ROTORS

I got my first undergraduate research job flying unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for Dr. Matthew Taylor here at WSU. Working with Dr. Taylor and being exposed to research has changed my school experience drastically. Over the summer of 2016 I was fortunate enough to contract for Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. located in Los Angeles, CA. A colleague and I were tasked to develop not only a hardware platform for various payloads needed by the company, but a whole software and hardware solution was developed by us to allow a single operator to fly and manage many UAS systems at once, including various task division algorithms and coordinated navigation. Experiencing an idea turn into an actual working solution is rewarding.

I not only flew for the university and as a contractor, but I also race in a loosely formed group of local flyers. We fly from a  first person view (FPV) and at very high speed.