Amir Melzer
Senior Research And Development Engineer at Dufour Aerospace
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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SeniorAmir Melzer is a Senior Research and Development Engineer based in Zurich with 11 years of experience building navigation, autopilot and state-estimation systems for robotics, RF and defense applications. He combines deep hands-on skills in sensor fusion, signal processing, RF circuitry and embedded electrical design with project leadership across multidisciplinary teams at Wyss Zurich, ETH Zürich’s Autonomous Systems Lab and Dufour Aerospace. Notably, he has contributed device drivers and sensor-integration fixes to the widely used PX4 autopilot project, improving IMU initialization and data quality for production UAV stacks. His background blends academic rigor (MSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering) with practical avionics and embedded systems delivery. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex sensing requirements into robust hardware-software solutions and to shepherd prototypes into field-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
imu10
embedded10
c-language10
px410
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serial-communication10
device-driver10
cprogramming-language10
spi10
autopilot10
sys10
autonomy8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
Nov 2015 - Apr 2021
PX4 Autopilot Software
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 7 comments in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Amir primarily contributed to the driver implementation and maintenance for the Analog Devices ADIS16448 IMU within the PX4 autopilot software. Their work involved adding a new driver, fixing bit masks, and restoring factory calibration values to ensure proper sensor initialization and data processing. Furthermore, they addressed code quality by adding stall times, settling times, and removing coning compensation, and removing factory calibration functionality from probe. These changes improved the sensor's integration with the PX4 ecosystem.
multicopteravoidancedroneuasraspberry-pi
ASM3/Firmware
Nov 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:28 pushes, 11 branches in 5 years 4 months
firmwarehardwarepixhawkpx4px4-firmware
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