The AERPAW platform hosted its second autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) student competition called the AERPAW Autonomous Data Mule (AADM) challenge. This was a multi-phased challenge held between February and September 2025. The goal of the challenge was to download…
AERPAW tutorial proposal was accepted for the Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC). The theme for this year’s conference is “Avionics’ Responsibility for Safe and Sustainable Next Generation Aerospace Operations”. On Sunday, September 14, 2025, the AERPAW team will host a…
AERPAW Autonomous Data Mule (AADM) Challenge Results Released The registration for the AADM challenge was opened in December 2024, and 22 student teams from various universities registered for the competition by late Spring. They have been developing their solutions since…
Third AERPAW Community Workshop (ACW25) The third AERPAW Community Workshop (ACW) was held on May 27-30, 2025, at Talley Student Union, NC State University, and Lake Wheeler Field Labs, Raleigh, NC. This third community workshop (ACW25) focuses on training and…
Spring 2025 PlugFest AERPAW OTIC participated in the Spring 2025 plugfest, which started in February 2025 and ended in May 2025. The OTIC partnered with LiteOn and Keysight, and the Device Under Test (DUT) was LiteOn’s FlexiFi O-RU. O-RAN ALLIANCE…
NC State ECE Joins 10-University Uncrewed Aerial Systems Communications Project ECE researchers have joined a 10-university team working on a new NASA University Leadership Initiative (ULI) project to improve drone communications. April 16, 2025 Jeff Zehnder Eric Frew is…
CIRC and CNS MRI PIs Demo of AERPAW AERPAW hosted the Principal Investigators of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CIRC and CNS MRI awards for a demo at AERPAW Lake Wheeler site. These more than 100 researchers attended a two-day…