Sensing & instrumentation
Capture useful measurements, understand sensor limits, and build dependable data acquisition setups.
Aero Nova innovation team
Autonomous & Intelligent Systems Team
We bring sensing, embedded electronics, software, and engineering together to build systems that can understand their environment and respond with purpose.
What we do
From signals to decisions
The team explores how aircraft and other engineered systems can collect reliable data, interpret it, and assist with safe, useful decisions. Members work across the full loop: sensors, control hardware, software, testing, and documentation.
Our work is hands-on and collaborative. We begin with a measurable question, build a small test, inspect the results, and use what we learn to improve the next iteration.
Technical focus
Connected disciplines
Projects are shaped around real engineering needs, pairing practical electronics with software and careful systems thinking.
Embedded systems
Connect microcontrollers, communications, and edge processing into maintainable prototypes.
Intelligent control
Explore estimation, automation, and machine-learning methods with clear constraints and human oversight.
Current commissioning project
Line Follower Robot
The team is commissioning a line-following mobile robot that senses a marked track and steers itself along it. The project brings together reflectance sensors, embedded control, motor drivers, and a differential-drive chassis in a compact, testable system.
Members will calibrate sensor readings against the track, verify motor direction and response, then tune the controller through repeatable runs. The commissioning work provides a practical foundation for learning how sensing and control interact in a moving autonomous system.
Testing begins at low speed on a controlled course. The team will document the setup, observed behavior, limits, and changes made during commissioning.
- Assemble sensors, controller, and drive system
- Calibrate line detection and motor response
- Tune steering through controlled track trials
- Record results and commissioning improvements
The people behind the projects
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Contributions can support the whole club or be directed to the Autonomous and Intelligent Systems Team for sensors, electronics, test materials, and learning activities.