Penn Aerial Robotics (Penn AiR) is student-led team at the University of Pennsylvania for the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and robots. The club aims to provide students with the resources to construct, develop and test their own UAVs, travel to and compete at inter-collegiate competitions, and connect with people who share this same passion. During the 2025-26 school year, we will be designing and constructing micro-class planes, a large high-lift aircraft, and an autonomous tail-sitter VTOL aircraft to compete in 3 separate events at SAE Aero Design 2026. We will also develop a full stack autonomy codebase for a quadcopter robot swarm to compete in IARC, involving computer vision, path planning, and controls.
