In Talbot’s flight lab on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, aerospace engineering seniors Atlas Karm, Rayan Syed, Adil Gill, and Amber Miller worked on their final project for the fall semester. The project was for Tim Bretl’s AE 430 autonomous systems lab course.
“The goal of the project was to develop a user interface where one could draw any image and have that image converted into a flyable flight path which could be flown by a drone with an LED deck attached,” Miller said. “In this way we could overlap the frames of a video of the drone flying and achieve a floating image effect.”
Watch the demonstration video. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vwzGQbo8884
The team created a trajectory that conveyed a message to the observer through artful depictions. One of the goals was to inspire local students in the Champaign-Urbana community to learn more about how STEM could be used to create art and increase the interest among students to study aerospace engineering.