Ewoud Smeur
Assistant Professor at Technische Universiteit Delft
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolEwoud Smeur is an assistant professor and control systems researcher with 13 years of experience specializing in micro air vehicles (MAVs) and hybrid VTOL platforms. Based at TU Delft, he develops robust, model-light control algorithms that enable novel MAV designs to perform mapping, delivery and inspection tasks reliably in real-world flights. His PhD work demonstrated incremental control on hybrid MAVs and he has practical embedded systems experience from contributing INDI-based controllers and bug fixes to the widely used open-source Paparazzi autopilot. Prior roles include postdoctoral research at TU Munich and industry work building sensor drivers and vision-based object detectors, giving him a rare blend of academic rigor and hands-on implementation. He combines theoretical control insights with field-tested software and firmware expertise to accelerate flexible deployment of next-generation unmanned air systems.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Aerospace Control and Simulation, Master's degree, Aerospace Control and Simulation at Delft University of Technology
Github Skills (12)
c1710
control-systems10
embedded10
drones10
c1110
autopilot10
sys10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
actuator9
algorithms9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
paparazzi/paparazzi
Oct 2012 - Dec 2022
Paparazzi is a free and open-source hardware and software project for unmanned (air) vehicles. This is the main software repository.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:102 reviews, 205 commits, 154 PRs in 10 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ewoud primarily worked on developing and improving the software for the paparazzi project, focusing on the control of rotorcraft. They implemented and refined the INDI controller, a dynamic inversion control method, including adding features such as rate control, and tilt-twist control. They also addressed bugs and other improvements like a fix for the magnetometer and added documentation.
pprzpaparazziairdroneshardware
EwoudSmeur/paparazzi
Mar 2014 - Dec 2022
Paparazzi is a free and open-source hardware and software project for unmanned (air) vehicles. This is the main software repository.
Contributions:412 commits, 1 PR, 426 pushes in 8 years 10 months
paparazzic-plus-plusairvehicleshardware
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