Charles Cross
Co-Founder & CTO at Mission Robotics
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Cross is a Co-Founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building real-time telerobotics and embedded systems, focused on ocean exploration and connectivity from Palo Alto. He led the software architecture and firmware for consumer and commercial ROVs at OpenROV and now steers Mission Robotics toward new ways to observe and understand marine environments. Charles designed teleoperation systems for autonomous vehicles at Voyage, and has deep hands-on expertise in low-level drivers, motor control (FOC), and reliable low-latency video for constrained hardware. His open-source contributions to the PX4 Autopilot project reflect practical mastery of embedded drivers, hardware configuration, and control logic. Equally comfortable prototyping VR interfaces and refining SDIO clocks, he blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic engineering to turn complex sensors and vehicles into reliable, deployable tools.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering Automatic Controls, Electrical Engineering Automatic Controls at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityKecoughtan High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
c-language10
px410
system-configuration10
autopilot10
drones10
server-configuration10
hardware10
device-driver10
driver10
sys10
embedded10
configurations10
stm10
cprogramming-language10
magnetometer10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
PX4 Autopilot Software
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 10 commits, 7 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to low-level embedded systems aspects of the PX4 Autopilot, including hardware configuration and driver improvements. They modified SDIO clock speeds for a specific board and revised the self-test procedure for an RM3100 magnetometer. Further contributions involved adding support for Timer15 on a specific hardware platform, encompassing driver configuration and hardware description updates. Additional changes included modifications to the control allocator, dshot driver, and EV height fusion logic.
multicopteravoidancedroneuasraspberry-pi
aqualinkorg/asv
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 11 pushes, 1 comment in 3 months
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