Quadrotor Senior Capstone Project

A multidisciplinary effort to develop an eVTOL firefighting drone for rural response, where I drove mechanical and hardware design and owned the ROS 2 autonomy algorithms and control. Under high‐pressure conditions — including an onboard computer failure the night before our first flight — I delivered a teleoperated system with real‐time SLAM, obstacle‐avoiding trajectories, and successful demonstrations. Although full autonomy remains for future development, our team excelled at innovating through failure, collaborating across mechanical, electrical, software, ML, and systems engineering, and earned our advisor’s endorsement to scale the platform further. This capstone taught me resilience in the face of setbacks, cross‐disciplinary leadership, and the ability to unite diverse engineers around a bold, shared vision.