Our Mission

Win by iterating faster.

Our mission is to design, build, and fly our way to the AIAA Design Build Fly competition in America this coming April.

Project Daedalus plans to compete at the AIAA Design Build Fly competition by leveraging the expertise of the IDEAL Lab at ETH Zurich to build a machine-learning pipeline for rapid aircraft design and prototyping.

The project explores how tools for parametric UAV generation, automated documentation, simulation, geometry, optimization, and design evaluation can be connected into a practical workflow. The ambition is simple: move from idea to prototype faster, test more options, and make better (and faster) engineering decisions.