User:Scdwyer

About Me

• Name: Stephen Dwyer
• Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Masters student in Mechanical Engineering at University of Alberta
• Member of the University of Alberta UAS Group
• Contact: scdwyerATualbertaDOTca

I have very little experience with Paparazzi thus far. I hope to remedy this in the near future, both for fun and (hopefully) as part of my Masters research. I have been following the wiki and mailing list for quite some time though.

I began working with small unmanned aircraft systems with the U of A Aerial Robotics Group, where I was team lead for 2 years, co-team lead for 1 year, and attended 3 AUVSI Student UAS competitions. We used the Micropilot MP2128g in our systems, and I gained valuable experience understanding the difficulty of autonomous system integration.

Current Work

I am working with two other students as part of a larger University of Alberta UAS Group to prepare a small demonstration platform. This UAV platform will be the beginning of an attempt to foster UAS research at our university, and provide an initial starting point for researchers from a variety of disciplines and departments to begin research on unmanned aircraft systems directly, or, more likely, investigate payloads and applications.

This unfortunately is taking most of my time (among other things like being a TA) and limits my personal system development. I am however looking forward to getting my Quadshot Expresso in the coming months!