Brian Bingham
Co-Founder at Naval Postgraduate School
Pacific Grove, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Bingham is a robotics researcher, educator, and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience spanning academia, industry, and startup leadership. He is co-founder of Honu Robotics and a professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he has led departments and mentored the next generation of robotics engineers. His work focuses on navigation and control for ocean and mobile robots, informed by hands-on roles from founding METIS and Axis Engineering to visiting scientist work at Woods Hole. An active open-source contributor, he has implemented practical teleoperation and documentation improvements for the Virtual RobotX (VRX) project, blending simulation and real-world systems. Based in Pacific Grove, he pairs a deep research pedigree (PhD from MIT) with a track record of moving prototypes through production and into community-driven platforms.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, PhD, Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (8)
simulations10
robotics-simulation10
gazebosim10
robot-simulator10
python10
ros10
gazebo-simulator10
doxygen7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
osrf/vrx
Jan 2018 - Aug 2022
Virtual RobotX (VRX) resources.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 305 commits, 23 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the virtual robotX (VRX) project by implementing features related to keyboard teleoperation. These contributions involved developing a Python script to translate twist commands into drive commands, enabling basic control of the robot. The user also made improvements to code structure by adding Doxygen comments.
robotics-simulationignitionroboticssimulationrobot-simulator
bsb808/linux_setup
Apr 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:130 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 11 months
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