Grant Apperson
Robotics Navigation Engineer
Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGrant Apperson is a Robotics Navigation Engineer with 12 years of experience integrating hardware and software to deliver robust vehicle control systems across automotive, marine, and heavy-truck platforms. He has led analytics and technology teams in industry while designing and implementing control algorithms for platoon following, passive implement guidance for agricultural equipment, and marine unexploded ordnance detection. Comfortable from low-level sensors to high-level algorithms, Grant blends field-hardened hardware know-how with MATLAB/Simulink and real-time dSPACE development to move concepts into tested vehicles. He has taught System Dynamics and Controls at Auburn University and written successful research proposals, showing a rare mix of pedagogy and grant-driven research. Currently based in Alabama and recently supporting social-impact work in South Africa, he brings both technical rigor and a people-first approach to projects. Colleagues rely on him for tackling hard integration challenges and for mentoring teams through complex, safety-critical deployments.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Jackson High SchoolMaster of Engineering - MEng, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
Github Skills (7)
garmin5
gpx4
gps3
offline-maps2
command-line1
ntrip1
cli1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
GAVLab/septentrio
Nov 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
grantapperson/cacc-msgs
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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