UW feature stories

Hide and seek

A&A's Autonomous Flight Systems Lab is building a drone-based machine learning dataset to find those lost in wilderness.
UW Aero & Astro News

Flying blind

A&A researchers create a method to keep drones on course when GPS signals fail.
UW News

In the media

Autonomous aerial guidance, navigation and control Systems with Christopher Lum
This Week in Machine Learning and AI | April 19, 2018
Ok, In this episode, I’m joined by Christopher Lum, Research Assistant Professor in the University of Washington’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Eye in the sky: Student-led research on unmanned systems
UW Daily | May 30, 2017
In a dimly lit, cold, spacious hallway, students clustered around an electrical tape-covered drone, its wires swaying in the damp breeze from open doors. Everything was normal at the UW Aerospace Engineering Research Building, save for the fire. The styrofoam chassis of FUNRA, one of the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) at the Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory (AFSL), had ignited. Concerned undergraduate researchers rushed the aircraft outside and passed by the office of Christopher Lum.

Facebook's Aquila drone completes first test flight
USA Today | July 21, 2016
Using solar-powered aircraft to broadcast high-speed Internet is not new, says Christopher Lum, a research assistant professor in University of Washington's department of aeronautics and astronautics.

16 top drone programs at universities and colleges
Dronenthusiast | April 21, 2016
If you’re heading off to college in the future and you want to study unmanned aerial systems we’ve put together a great post for you. I sent out tons of emails to all the universities I could find that seemed to be drone friendly. I investigated who was involved with the drone program at each school and I got their point of view on what their school has to offer potential students looking to study UAS or unmanned aerial vehicles.

Drones go to college: Northwest universities add programs in unmanned aerial systems
KUOW | November 5, 2015
If you want to go to college to learn how to design, build, fly or fix a drone, your time has come. Many institutions of higher learning around the Northwest are recognizing that unmanned aircraft could become a key technology of the future.