Jeff Delaune
Robotics Technologist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Delaune is a Robotics Technologist with a decade of experience designing visual-inertial navigation, state estimation, and sensor-fusion systems for aerial and planetary vehicles at JPL. He has been a core contributor to high-profile projects including Ingenuity and Mars Sample Recovery Helicopters, leading visual front-end design, navigation testing, and sensor calibration. His background spans academia and industry—from a PhD in vision-based planetary landing to founding a map-based search startup—giving him rare breadth across research, system engineering, and product development. Comfortable with both flight hardware and algorithm development, he often bridges field testing and production navigation stacks, and has led rover state estimation and mid-air delivery concepts for Mars EDL. Based in Pasadena, he brings a practical knack for turning computer vision research into flight-proven autonomy.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalaureat Scientifique (High School Degree), Maths, Baccalaureat Scientifique (High School Degree), Maths at Lycee Saint MartinPhD in Embedded Aerospace Systems, Space Systems Engineering: Vision-Based Navigation for Pinpoint Planetary Landing, PhD in Embedded Aerospace Systems, Space Systems Engineering: Vision-Based Navigation for Pinpoint Planetary Landing at Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE)BSc - MSc, Engineering, BSc - MSc, Engineering at Ecole centrale de NantesMSc, Astronautics and Space Engineering, MSc, Astronautics and Space Engineering at Cranfield UniversityClasses préparatoires, Maths, Physics, Classes préparatoires, Maths, Physics at Lycée Chateaubriand
English, French, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (35)
toolbox10
imu10
depth-camera10
camera10
calibration10
optical-flow10
sensor8
measurements7
fusion7
ros6
solar6
sensor-fusion6
gps6
depth-estimation6
stereo5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jpl-x/x
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Generic C++ library for vision-based navigation, with multi-sensor fusion capabilities for thermal, range, solar and GPS measurements.
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
multi-sensorsensor-fusionthermalvisionc-library
jpl-x/x_vio_ros
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
ROS wrapper for visual-inertial odometry with the X framework.
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
roboticsros2odometryvisual-inertialslam-algorithms
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