Georg Wiedebach
Principal Controls Engineer at Persona AI Inc
Pensacola, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolGeorg Wiedebach is a Principal Controls Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in humanoid robot control, sensor fusion, and real-time systems. He has progressed from research internships and academic roles at ETH Zurich and IHMC to senior R&D engineering at Walt Disney Imagineering and now leads controls efforts at Persona AI. His work includes deep hands-on improvements to EKF-based multi-sensor fusion (notably refining state propagation, out-of-order IMU handling, and spherical measurement residuals in the popular ethzasl_msf project). Georg combines rigorous academic training from ETH Zurich with practical deployment experience in entertainment and robotics research, bridging laboratory algorithms and production-ready systems. Known for debugging core estimation logic and adding robust error handling, he brings a pragmatic eye for edge cases that often break real-world robots. Based in Pensacola, Florida, he excels at turning complex sensor and control challenges into reliable, maintainable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
eigen10
cprogramming-language10
ros10
operating-system10
sensor-fusion10
linear-algebra9
robotics9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ethz-asl/ethzasl_msf
Apr 2013 - Aug 2013
MSF - Modular framework for multi sensor fusion based on an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF)
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:10 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Georg primarily focused on debugging and refining the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) core implementation within the MSF framework, addressing issues related to state propagation and measurement processing. They modified the core logic to improve the handling of invalid states and out-of-order IMU data, implementing more robust error handling. Additionally, the user added new services and initialized scales and heights for the pose sensor. Furthermore, the user implemented spherical measurement calculations and corrected associated residual computations.
modular-frameworkmsfmulti-sensorsensor-fusionextended
georgwi/EKF
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch, 9 issues in 11 months
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