Time for a Software Update

With over 30 members, MAAV’s software team is the largest of our 4 subteams. The group is comprised of many different specialized divisions, including Strategy, Utilities, Localization, and Vision. In the February update for Software, the public relations team collaborated with…

Getting off the Ground: An Update from the Structures team

To our readers: This is our first blog post in our series of monthly recaps about the various subteams of MAAV! Make sure to check the blog every week, since we will be posting a monthly recap of a different subteam each week…

Circuits Onboards New Members

One of the most important new initiatives for MAAV has been our commitment to on-boarding for our new members. Building a drone is difficult work and there is a definite learning curve for new members. In this blog post, we discuss some of the ways the circuits team is making…

Circuits Team Weekly Rally

For the past few weeks, the MAAV circuits team has led a productive routine, onboarding newer members with important skills and knowledge necessary to develop the PCBs that will become core internals of our vehicle. The past two meetings have started off in similar settings —senior…

Circuits Powers Up

This semester, Circuits’ goals are to design new power and signal boards, extend responsibility of the team to included embedded code, create fourteen competition-simulating ground Roombas, and investigate a way to accommodate two Jetson TX2s (computers used in the vehicle) on board…

Welcome to MAAV’s Blog!

We are Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicles, a student-led engineering design team at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. For years we have been designing, building and programming autonomous aerial vehicles to compete in the International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC). We are…

Software Paves the Road Forward

MAAV’s computer vision division within their software subteam met on October 25th. The team is in the early stages of the year, assigning different projects to newer members as they complete their software tutorials. Cheng, one of the leads, walks through the various…