I am a mechatronics engineer with a Masters in control engineering and robotics. I am also that guy obssesed with airplanes and basically everything that flies.
I enjoy working with robotics, software, and control engineering in general. Specifically, I have been working on designing flight controllers for autonomous flying vehicles. I have developed an adaptive sliding mode control strategy based on visual cues, which you can find the simulation videos in the following links:
These videos are part of my research, which you can find in my Google Scholar profile.
I also enjoy working with Machine Learning and software development, which has allowed me to publish other scientific papers, also available on my Google Scholar.
During my bachelor's, I thought control engineering was extremely boring. It wasn't until I programmed a PID using LabVIEW that I thought to myself: Wait a minute... this applies to many areas in engineering. And so I became engaged by the incredible world of system theory, controllers, and optimization problems. The journey has been that impactful for my life because I became interested in more mathematical stuff, mainly linear algebra. I really feel this allowed me to be in contact with the idea that the more you research something, the more you understand how many things you weren't even aware of. Beautiful.
I am working as a research associate engineer at Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (IVI) in the area of swarm intelligence. Previously I was a research associate at the University of Paderborn, focusing on data-driven control techniques. There I worked mostly with data-driven Model Predictive Control as well as being the tutor for the system theory and advanced system theory courses. Before this, I worked intensively in the area of adaptive control using sliding-mode controllers to achieve the vision-based control of a quadrotor performing object-tracking routines.