Burnham,UK
Aerospace Engineering Student | Tinkering with Edge AI & Drone Systems
A third-year aerospace engineering student who enjoys tinkering with a Jetson Nano and a half-disassembled quadcopter. I build small, honest systems end to end: airframe, wiring, flight controller setup, then the vision code that runs on board. Most of what I know came from things that failed first.
Looking for a 2027 graduate roles in UAV systems, avionics or embedded/edge AI.
01 — Projects
Hands-on hardware and software builds, with what worked and what didn't.
Project Goals: Develop a Python-based agentic decision framework integrated with ROS2 and PX4 SITL that parses real-time flight telemetry (battery status, wind velocity, system faults) and dynamic mission constraints to perform autonomous, real-time mission re-planning and fail-safe execution.
Project Goals: Build a complete 6-Degree-of-Freedom rigid-body flight dynamics model from first principles in MATLAB/Simulink, design state-space controllers (LQR with integral action and PID fallback), and validate control stability through Hardware-In-The-Loop (HITL) testing on a physical Pixhawk controller.
Project Goals: Deploy an edge-computed visual navigation pipeline combining object detection (ArUco/YOLO) and Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) to execute GPS-denied precision landing on target zones and trajectory adjustment around obstacles.
03 — Skills
An honest read on where I'm comfortable and where I'm still learning.
What I write code and version control with day to day.
Vision pipelines, MAVLink scripting, data plots
Flight controller firmware tweaks, embedded loops
Nodes and topics for onboard perception
Branching, rebases, issue-driven commits
Flashing Jetson images, systemd services
Bench and airframe work, mostly learned by breaking things first.
Mounts, camera brackets, printed parts
Frame builds, ESC/motor wiring, prop balancing
Pixhawk logs, PID tuning, failsafe checks
Power distribution, connectors, harness routing
University modules in fluids and flight mechanics
04 — Contact
Happy to talk about internships, builds or anything drone related.