Learn by building
Lehigh Aerial Swarms Club
An inclusive community for everyone interested in learning and collaborating in aerial robotics. Build robots, share ideas, and take on challenges together.
Interested in joining? Contact club president Alice Peng or Prof. David Saldaña to get involved.
Club GitHub ↗Club YouTube channel ↗
Student involvement
We are building a self-sustaining community where undergraduate and graduate students learn algorithms and theoretical robotics through hands-on experience. Students share their goals and perspectives, participate in competitions, travel to events, and learn to manage technological resources.
Students get involved through robotics courses, club activities, or summer programs including NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), the Mountaintop Summer Experience (MTSE), and SwarmsLab research programs.
Related courses include CSE360 Mobile Robotics, CSE398 Advanced Aerial Robotics, CSE398 Robot Swarms, and Independent Studies.
Defend the Republic
Our club participates in the national research robotics competition, Defend the Republic (DTR). Two teams deploy autonomous lighter-than-air vehicles to capture helium balloons and score in their opponents’ goals.
The challenge is to design and control autonomous robot swarms in difficult environments, with limited sensing, actuation, and computation. Students put perception, control, and teamwork into practice through a shared robotics challenge.
