Qingwen Wei

Challenge Team Lead and Test Pilot, NIST First Responder UAS Challenge at Maryland Robotics Center
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  • Chinese Professional working proficiency

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Credentials

  • Remote Pilot Certificate, Part 107
    Federal Aviation Administration
    Feb, 2021
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Maryland Robotics Center
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Challenge Team Lead and Test Pilot, NIST First Responder UAS Challenge
      • Aug 2022 - Present

      • Develop a tactical drone for indoor GPS denied situations for NIST 4.0 UAS Indoor Challenge.• Manage the design of the drone including frame design, electronics placement, and integration.• Collaborate with local law enforcement agencies to gather feedback on and evaluate our designs.• Complete administrative tasks such as task delegation and creating a schedule to meet competition deadlines.• Placed first as a team in the NIST 3.0 Outdoor First Responder Search and Rescue challenge.

    • Aerospace Engineering Intern and Test Pilot, ArtIAMAS Cooperative Agreement
      • Jun 2022 - Present

      • ArtIAMAS is a cooperative agreement between the Army Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland, supporting advancements in robotics and smart devices that work intelligently with each other and human actors.• Diagnose system integration issues with the avionics and RF equipment.• Maintain and upgrade a fleet of 5 drones to deploy in a field experiment.• Lead the development of a new long-range mesh networked drone for future ARL and UMD swarm operations.• Test fly ARL autonomy stack and fly demonstrations for army researchers.

    • Drone Test Pilot and Hardware Team Lead, Autonomous Micro Air Vehicle Team
      • Nov 2018 - Present

      • Design and assemble multiple iterations of drone frames and subsystems to become more efficient, faster, and better meet the competition rules with the use of newly developed industry technology.• Fabricate custom frames and parts for various UAS designs using 3D printing and CNC machining.• Perform structural analysis in Autodesk as well as complete real-world testing with various composite materials and troubleshooting to optimize weight while retaining strength for crash resistance.• Maintained various drones to be operational and ready for flight testing.• Test flew drones in manual mode, collecting sensor data and tuning autopilot parameters.• Reported the autopilot log data and results of flight testing to other sub-teams.

  • University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of Engineering
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Design Lead and Test Pilot, AIAA Design Build Fly Competition
      • Aug 2022 - Present

      • Head major design decisions regarding our approach to making an aircraft with a 5-foot wingspan. • Guide team members about remote control electronics and help pick components for the aircraft. • Organize and plan flight testing procedures as well as evaluate future team pilots. • Head major design decisions regarding our approach to making an aircraft with a 5-foot wingspan. • Guide team members about remote control electronics and help pick components for the aircraft. • Organize and plan flight testing procedures as well as evaluate future team pilots.

  • Textron Systems
    • United States
    • Defense and Space Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Mechanical Engineering Co op
      • Sep 2021 - May 2022

      • Created a set of 4 ground robots by adapting RC cars, adding an onboard computer and flight controller. • Incorporated gscam with aruco into a ROS package and wrote a velocity PID controller to use with PX4. • Coordinated flight tests and evaluated flight performance of various unmanned aircraft. • Tested unmanned aerial tracking platform and evaluated performance with both air and ground targets. • Wrote custom MATLAB scripts to parse and analyze large amounts of log data. • Created a set of 4 ground robots by adapting RC cars, adding an onboard computer and flight controller. • Incorporated gscam with aruco into a ROS package and wrote a velocity PID controller to use with PX4. • Coordinated flight tests and evaluated flight performance of various unmanned aircraft. • Tested unmanned aerial tracking platform and evaluated performance with both air and ground targets. • Wrote custom MATLAB scripts to parse and analyze large amounts of log data.

  • UMD UAS Research and Operations Center
    • Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Aerospace Engineering Intern
      • Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

      • Designed and manufactured 8 folding quadcopters, to be deployed from a larger drone, that fits within a 4x4 inch footprint and has a 25-minute flight time. • Adapted larger aerial vehicle to lift 20 lbs. and accommodate 8 launch tubes for the folding quadcopters. • Connect and control multiple aerial systems to QGroundControl to achieve simultaneous flight. • Adapted autopilot to release the smaller quadcopters from the launch tube and expand folded arms. • Flight tested all aspects of the deployment process before implementing autonomous features.

  • U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
    • United States
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • NREIP Virtual Intern
      • Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

      • Modeled flight dynamics and behaviors of the desired aerial system for CoppeliaSim. • Expanded functionally of a web-based remote controller intended for ground-based vehicles to be used with unmanned aerial assets by adding dual joysticks and a pilot’s view video stream. • Developed a python-based controller and interface system to be used with CoppeliaSim to allow for external autonomous control with the use of sensors and video feeds from CoppeliaSim. • Modeled flight dynamics and behaviors of the desired aerial system for CoppeliaSim. • Expanded functionally of a web-based remote controller intended for ground-based vehicles to be used with unmanned aerial assets by adding dual joysticks and a pilot’s view video stream. • Developed a python-based controller and interface system to be used with CoppeliaSim to allow for external autonomous control with the use of sensors and video feeds from CoppeliaSim.

  • University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of Engineering
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Peer Mentor
      • Dec 2019 - Dec 2019

      • Peer mentor for the FIRE Autonomous Unmanned Systems Stream• Mentor incoming students on how to get started in robotics/unmanned systems.• Help develop novel and existing research project ideas to inspire incoming students.• Guide new students on how to succeed in a research environment.

    • Undergraduate Leader and Primary Pilot, AUSS Vertical Flight Society Competition Team
      • Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

      • Micro air vehicle team as a part of the University of Maryland’s First-Year Innovation and Research Experience Autonomous Unmanned Systems stream which competes in the manual portion of the Vertical Flight Society Micro Air Vehicle competition.• Coordinate with the professor and department to obtain the necessary resources.• Manage the team/organize travel and finances to attend the yearly competition.• Lead the design and assembly of the competition vehicle using NX and 3d printing to quickly integrate and implement design changes. • The designated pilot for controlling the quadcopter during the competition.• Implement a mission-specific mechanism to secure package while preventing adverse effects on the vehicle.

    • Design Leader
      • Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

      • Developed a solar-powered plane for long-duration missions over the rainforest to monitor for possible wildfires or illegal activities like deforestation.• Took flight simulations to design efficient navigation algorithms to integrated it into ArduPilot software.• Experimented with solar panels to design an efficient system that can be mounted onto an RC plane.

  • University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of Engineering
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Hardware Team Leader, Flight Dynamics and Control for an Autonomous Quadrotor Project
      • Aug 2018 - Nov 2018

      • Coordinated a team of 3 students to build a drone with the off the shelf-components. • Developed and tested basic flight controllers for autonomous operation using ROS and virtual transmitter running in MATLAB. • Coordinated a team of 3 students to build a drone with the off the shelf-components. • Developed and tested basic flight controllers for autonomous operation using ROS and virtual transmitter running in MATLAB.

  • Towson High Law & Public Policy
    • United States
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • President and Head Engineer, VEX Robotics Competition
      • Aug 2014 - May 2018

      • Managed multiple internationally recognized teams in the robotics club to be ready for and attend competitions. • Educated 1st or 2nd-year team members on proper design and build techniques. • Helped spread information about the club to the students in the school. • Led the design and assembly of each year’s competition robot for the team. • Competed in VEX robotics competitions each year. • Qualified for and attended the global level competition in 2017 and 2018 with hundreds of the best teams from around the world.

Education

  • University of Maryland
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
    2018 - 2023
  • Towson High Law & Public Policy
    High School Diploma
    2014 - 2018

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