TY - GEN
T1 - Design, Build, Code, Fly
T2 - AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA SciTech Forum 2025
AU - Lego, Sara
AU - Khamvilai, Thanakorn
AU - Valente, Vitor Tumelero
AU - Johnson, Eric
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - This paper summarizes the curriculum design and development, as well as lessons learned, of one of the senior-level undergraduate capstone courses at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, called "Autonomy Capstone". This effort started in the Fall of 2019 as a special topic focusing on autonomous aerial systems in undergraduate aerospace education, then was approved to integrate into the department curriculum in the Fall of 2024. The ultimate goal is to equip undergraduate students with knowledge of advanced autonomy algorithms in aerospace, including sensing, state estimation/navigation, planning/guidance, and control. Due to their importance in aerospace, automotive, and embedded system industries, the course also aims to incorporate hands-on, low-level coding and simulation skills into the traditional design-build-fly (DBF) framework, termed design-buildcode-fly (DBCF).
AB - This paper summarizes the curriculum design and development, as well as lessons learned, of one of the senior-level undergraduate capstone courses at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, called "Autonomy Capstone". This effort started in the Fall of 2019 as a special topic focusing on autonomous aerial systems in undergraduate aerospace education, then was approved to integrate into the department curriculum in the Fall of 2024. The ultimate goal is to equip undergraduate students with knowledge of advanced autonomy algorithms in aerospace, including sensing, state estimation/navigation, planning/guidance, and control. Due to their importance in aerospace, automotive, and embedded system industries, the course also aims to incorporate hands-on, low-level coding and simulation skills into the traditional design-build-fly (DBF) framework, termed design-buildcode-fly (DBCF).
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105000849111
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105000849111#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.2514/6.2025-2726
DO - 10.2514/6.2025-2726
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105000849111
SN - 9781624107238
T3 - AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA SciTech Forum 2025
BT - AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA SciTech Forum 2025
PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
Y2 - 6 January 2025 through 10 January 2025
ER -