Case studies
Work
Each of these started as a problem someone could not solve with off-the-shelf parts. They are ordered by the distinction the work earned, and every one links back to the capability it proves.
Reconfigurable CubeSat Clusters
A compute and communications stack that turns a swarm of 1U CubeSats into a single elastic cluster, with FPGA payloads that change function in orbit and workloads that migrate between satellites in seconds.
Air-and-Water Autonomous Vehicle
AQUAD: a single vehicle that flies to a site, submerges, manoeuvres underwater and returns to the air, on one charge. Built against a brief targeting ocean worlds such as Europa.
Wireless Power and Data Transfer
Paired resonant Tesla coils beaming power and low-frequency data across a gap with no conductor between them, and the electromagnetic compatibility engineering needed to keep nearby avionics alive.
Autonomous Aerial Docking and Recharge
A heavy-lift carrier UAV acting as an airborne charging hub and data relay, letting micro-drones dock in flight to recharge, offload sensor data and borrow GPU cycles.
Morphing-Geometry Multirotor
A multirotor whose thruster pods pivot and slide on servo-driven rails, shifting from a wide-span cruise configuration to a compact footprint that fits through doorways and pipe racks.
Natural-Language Flight Control
A chat-to-fly interface for UAV operators: spoken or typed instructions translated directly into flight commands by a language model running on the aircraft, not in a datacentre.
Turbine-Powered VTOL Platform
A VTOL airframe driven by twin JetCat P60 micro-turbines instead of electric rotors: over 13 kg of combined thrust and fixed-wing cruise speeds, while keeping multirotor agility for vertical take-off.