Responsibilities include:

• led a team of 6 other engineers to develop motion planning and control algorithms for Shield products
• establish and revise long-term (~2 yrs) technical roadmap

• acted as scrum master for the team and guided:

  • the transition of a 2D planning pipeline to a 3D pipeline
  • a 3D, AI-assisted teleoperation mode that avoids obstacles in real-time
  • a cloud-based simulation and analysis framework
    

• exploration strategies to optimise for rate of information gain
• motion planning for high speed flight in unknown environments
• control algorithms for aggressive trajectory-tracking and disturbance rejection
  

• developed shape-memory-alloy remote-controlled actuation system used in wind tunnel testing, aircraft ailerons & flaps, etc.
• synthesised and implemented non-linear controls in Matlab & Simulink
• developed physics-based LIDAR model for measuring airspeed, temperature, and pressure at a distance
  

• designed and tested acoustic resonator technology, which decreased fairing sound pressure levels by 6dB
• automated data processing and analysis task, which decreased run-time by factor of 5
• led a team of 3 professionals on study of safety of random vibration testing and provided testing guidelines