Cardinal S.A.R.

Autonomous Search & Rescue using Quadcopters

Cardinal S.A.R. is a four person team from Stanford University which competed in the 2016 DJI Developer Challenge.

Adrien Perkins

Steve Krukowski

Sumant Sharma

Jon Cox

Aug 31, 2016: Cardinal S.A.R. takes second in the DJI Developer Challenge! The final ten teams, representing countries from around the world, met in Rome, New York to compete in the final round of the challenge. Cardinal S.A.R. was one of three teams to successfully program a DJI Matrice to take off and land autonomously on a Ford F150. Thank you to DJI, its partners, and congratulations to the competitors!


Aug 4, 2016: Cardinal S.A.R. and Prof. Mykel Kochenderfer were invited to the first-ever White House Office of Science Technology Policy (OSTP) workshop on drones and the future of aviation at the White House. You can watch the live-streamed event here.





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