Purdue Aerial Robotics Team (PART)

Purdue Aerial Robotics Team, or PART for short, is a large club at Purdue that competes in the RoboNation SUAS competition to develop an autonomous aerial system that has to identify targets and deploy associated payloads over a large course. There’s a lot that goes into it, check it out

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My current role is the Integration and Test Lead. Here, alongside my team, we build and maintain our fleet of aircraft and adjust them for desired tests. I’ve spent many hours setting up and testing planes, quadcopters and hexacopters for aerial footage collection and payload deployment testing. That often includes designing custom brackets for mounting servo release mechanisms, cameras, motor mounts, or other components (When we break stuff, we redesign and rebuild our own versions). When our 2024 airframe is completed, we’ll be integrating all of the subsystems we’ve been testing onto that vehicle.

This is my second year on PART. In my first year, I was part of the airframe team (integration and testing wasn’t made a separate division yet, so this was also I&T work). Here I spent my time developing the nose gear, while also machining the molds for the carbon fiber skins and supporting the general building of the vehicle.

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