Drone club is a Technical platform for students to share their ideas, collaborate with each other to come up with unique solutions and work in teams to prepare drones as well as robotics based technical projects and cultivate technical plus soft skills along the way. Drone club was established in 2018 by Students of RIT and has continuously been developing drones and sharing knowledge through various activities. The objective of drone club is to develop interest in Robotics, Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud computing among the students of RIT and provide a platform and resources to experiment effectively  with these technologies. Drone club allows students to apply theoretical knowledge in meaningful practical applications. Students develop their non-technical skills through various activities such as Brainstorming sessions, Workshop instruction and collaboration with other clubs.

Successful project execution through personal development is the main objective of the club.

Vision

“ To develop full-fledged Drone ecosystem comprising of Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and advanced Drones for aerial monitoring and analysis, and share the knowledge along the way! ”

Mission

• Provide a platform to learn and experiment on diverse technologies in Robotics, Drone technologies and Artificial Intelligence.
• To build advanced and autonomous drones.
• To make students capable of designing, building, programming robotic systems, drones and peripheral systems.
• Share knowledge through Workshops, awareness sessions and collaborations.
• To participate in robotics based competitions

Core Project Coordinators

Faculty Coordinator: Prof. R. T. Patil

Faculty In Charge: Prof. A. M. Mulla

Sr. No.	Name	PRN	Designation
1	Ashutosh Hanamant Patil	1806067	Student Head
2	Digvijay Deepak Mahamuni	1910043	Technical Head
3	Pranavanand Vivekanand Patil	1806028	Project Coordinator
4	Swaroop Gopal Shinde	1805038	Project Coordinator
5	Vijay Dhanaji Babar	1905023	Project Coordinator
6	Dhwij Makarand Patil	2003038	Member
7	Vikram Dhananjay Salunkhe	2003030	Member

Achievements

• Developed 2 drones
• Assisted 2 capstone projects
• Significant contribution in development of RIT incubated Start-up (O-Robot)
• Conducted 2 workshops on “Quadcopter Drone”
• 1 workshop on “Object Oriented Programming in C++”.
• 1 Autonomous drone under progress
• Mentored and looked after over 90+ F.Y. mini-projects (Engineering Exploration).

Founders

Sr. No.	Name	Designation
1	Gaurav Mane	Alumni mentor
2	Piyush Mahamuni	Founder
3	Ankur Shinde	Founder
4	Rushikesh Khot	Founder
5	Ganesh Kokate	Founder
6	Shubham Powar	Founder
7	Shreyas Kurundwadkar	Founder
8	Abhijeet Varude	Founder