Eric Price
Researcher At The Institute Of Flight Mechanics And Controls (IFR), Universität Stuttgart
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Price is a researcher and embedded systems engineer with nine years of experience building autonomous intelligent systems, flight robots, computer vision pipelines, and distributed sensor networks. Currently based at Universität Stuttgart’s Institute of Flight Mechanics and Controls and collaborating as a guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute, he bridges academic research and hands-on system development for UAV perception and control. His background includes a PhD-focused role in perceiving systems and significant contributions to open-source flight controller software (LibrePilot) and audio tooling (MilkyTracker), reflecting deep low-level expertise from USB drivers to telemetry bridges. Eric’s work blends rigorous research with practical engineering—porting, optimizing and stabilizing flight stacks while advancing sample processing and filters in signal projects. Comfortable across embedded firmware, server-side tooling and robotics research, he is known for turning complex sensor and control problems into reliable, field-ready solutions. A detail that often surprises collaborators: he pairs high-level perception research with frequent low-level fixes, such as bootloader and driver improvements, that keep systems flying.
9 years of coding experience
Diplom-Informatiker, Informatik, 1.3, Diplom-Informatiker, Informatik, 1.3 at Universität Stuttgart
German, English
Github Skills (19)
c-language10
audio-processing10
c1110
kalman-filter10
c1710
controls10
sys10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
multiplatform9
drones9
fpc9
usb9
stm9
music9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
librepilot/LibrePilot
Oct 2016 - Oct 2018
This is the GitHub mirror for the LibrePilot source code. The main development is taking place at https://bitbucket.org/librepilot
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 2 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Eric focused on low-level embedded systems and flight controller software development, as evidenced by the contributions to the `insgps14state` and `insgps13state` files, including optimizations and bug fixes. The user also worked on the HoTT bridge module, porting it from TauLabs and implementing functionality for telemetry data transmission. Furthermore, the user implemented fixes and improvements to the USB driver, bootloaders, and stabilization features of the flight controller.
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milkytracker/MilkyTracker
Apr 2017 - Apr 2020
A Fasttracker II compatible music editor
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Eric contributed significantly to the MilkyTracker project, primarily focusing on enhancing the sample editor functionality. Their work includes implementing new equalizer constants and selective equalizer features. Furthermore, the user added new filters such as AM, FM, PH and Flanger, improving the sample editor's processing capabilities. They also fixed a bug in phase distortion filter and allow quarter periods for generators.
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