Angel Santamaria-navarro
Associate Professor And Reseracher (IRI-UPC)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolAngel Santamaria-navarro is an Associate Professor and researcher at UPC's Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial with 13 years of experience advancing aerial manipulation, state estimation, computer vision and mobile robotics. He combines academic leadership with hands-on engineering from earlier industry roles and a productive stint as a Robotics Research Technologist and postdoc at NASA JPL’s Robotic Aerial Mobility section. His work spans hardware design for UAVs and software development in C++, ROS, Python and MATLAB, informed by major EU projects like ARCAS and AEROARMS and a visiting collaboration in Vijay Kumar’s lab at UPenn. Angel holds a PhD in Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision and is notable for translating cutting-edge research into flight-ready systems used in experimental robotics. Based in Barcelona, he brings a rare blend of mission-driven space robotics experience and practical UAV prototyping that benefits both students and cross-disciplinary research teams.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Catalan, Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (22)
drones10
ros10
mavlink9
autopilot9
px49
rover9
raspberry-pi9
gazebo-simulator8
yarp8
qgroundcontrol8
ignition8
simulator8
gazebosim8
robotics7
robot-simulator7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
angelsantamaria/angelsantamaria.github.io
Jan 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
angelsantamaria/ardupilot_copter_bbblue
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes in 3 months
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