S TA N F O R D U AV E N T H U S I A S T S , E N G I N E E R S A N D E N T R E P R E N E U R S

SUAVE Leadership

Director of Proj.

Adrien Perkins

President

Trent LukaczykVice President

Manuel López

Treasurer

Matt Pawlicki

Founder

Robbie Bunge

Director of Proj.

JP Shivanandan

Head Mentor

Niels Joubert

Equipment Master

Jacob CrabillEquipment Master

Josh Romero

Mission Statement

• SUAVE is dedicated to:

• Designing, Building and Flying Autonomous Vehicles

• Supporting self motivated projects

• Creating a community of UAV enthusiasts in the bay area

• Expand students’ knowledge of UAVs

• Connecting students to new and awesome opportunities

It’s Not Just Aero

Airframe is a platform for

your imagination

Club Structure

Student Community

• Executive Board

• Mentors

• Project Leaders

• Members

Bay Area Community

• Alumni

• Sponsors

• NASA

• Start-Ups

• Industry

What We’ve Done

• Fly/Build days

• Training sessions

• Bixler UAV Build-a-thon

• Work with a small team to build and fly a UAV in a day

• Lectures from UAV companies

• Includes Aerialtronics, SharperShape

• End of Quarter BBQ’s

• Free food and good times at Lake Lag

Exciting developments for Members!

• DJI Sponsorship!

• API Access to build drone apps

• Sweet video drones!

• SUAVE Hardware Certification program!

• 101 projects lead to certification

• UAV Ladder Challenge!

• Competing UAV builds

• Rated on flying our autonomous course.

• SUAVE Pilot Certification Program!

• (WIP!) Members prove their pilot skils.

101 Projects: Build and Fly a UAV

• Starting: your group gets UAV parts

• Finishing: fly a course unmanned

• Winning: Hardware! Membership!

• Planes and Quads

• 3 build events, 1 fly event

• ~3h each over 2 weeks

Form 101 groups today!

• 3 to 4 people

• Quad, plane, or both?

• Choose a drone name!

• Sign up on my laptop!

• I’ll EMAIL YOU!

Become a 101 MENTOR!

• Help out newbies!

• Get highest priority

access to new hardware

and fun trips!

• Recruit builders of your

robot army!

Club Projects

• Solar UAV

› Manuel López

• Outback Challenge

› JP Shivan

• Android UAS

› Steve Krukowki

• Drone Cinematography

› Niels Joubert

• Collision Avoidance Drones

› Trent Lukaczyk

Projects for Undergraduates

There are a number of international competitions for

undergraduate students interested in UAS

• AIAA Design Build Fly Competition

• Focuses on design and building

• SAE Aero Design Series

• Mostly design focus

• AUVSI Student UAS Competition

• Systems level competition

Current Quarter Plan

Every Tuesday Evening, Every Saturday Morning, Something is happening

• Introduction to the Club and UAVS

• Show-off Fly Day – Saturday October 4

• Laser Cutter Training – Thursday October 9

• Foam Cutter Training – Thursday October 16

• Talks and Meetings

• Tech Talk with Brandon Basso – 3DR – Tuesday October 7

• VP of R&D at an open-source UAV technology company manufacturing electronics and aerial vehicles

• Tech Talk with Jonathan Downey – Airware – Tuesday November 4

• Founder and CEO, building the “Microsoft OS of autopilots”

• Many more events, calendar will be constantly updated for fun talks and events

• http://uav.stanford.edu/calendar/

Keep In Touch

• Stanford UAV Facebook Group

• Frequent event postings and articles

• Good way to meet other member and schedule your own fly days

• Come out to the meetings and fly days

• Weekly Build/Fly days on Saturday

• Bi-Weekly Meetings on Tuesday

• Online Calendar

• Constantly being updated with new events

• uav.stanford.edu