Jose Claraco
Catedrático De Universidad
Almeria, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolJose Claraco is a Full Professor of Robotics and a longtime mobile-robotics software engineer with 16+ years building robust C++ systems, embedded platforms, and state estimation pipelines. He leads the MRPT project since 2005 and contributes to prominent libraries like OpenCV, g2o, GTSAM and nanoflann, specializing in cross-platform build reliability and performance benchmarking. As a consultant to medical-robotics companies and a senior state-estimation engineer, he blends academic rigor with production experience in perception, SLAM and estimation theory. An open-source advocate, he routinely fixes compiler/build issues across MSVC, GCC and Emscripten and upgrades complex dependency chains to keep projects portable. Based in Almería, Spain, he balances research (IJRR and IEEE editorial roles) with hands-on development, and even during a PhD visit to Oxford he focused on practical mobile-robotics systems under Paul Newman.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Universidad de MálagaPhD visit, Mobile Robotics, Engineering Department (Host: Paul Newman), PhD visit, Mobile Robotics, Engineering Department (Host: Paul Newman) at University of OxfordIngeniero Técnico en Telecomunicaciones (Especialidad Telemática), Ingeniero Técnico en Telecomunicaciones (Especialidad Telemática) at Universidad de Jaén
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Github Skills (42)
algorithm10
algorithms10
opencv10
c-language10
multiplatform10
qt10
image-processing10
build-system10
cross-platform10
cmake10
data-structure10
performance-testing10
cplus10
suitesparse10
data-structures10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jlblancoc/nanoflann
Aug 2011 - Jan 2023
nanoflann: a C++11 header-only library for Nearest Neighbor (NN) search with KD-trees
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 releases, 6 reviews, 301 commits in 11 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jose implemented performance tests and benchmarking code for nearest neighbor (NN) search algorithms with KD-trees, targeting point clouds. Their work involved integrating and benchmarking the performance of external libraries like FLANN and comparing it against the functionality of the primary library nanoflann. The user's contributions include developing the test code in C++ and generating figures to assess the performance characteristics.
kd-treenearest-neighbor-searchc-plus-pluskd-treespoint-clouds
MRPT/mrpt
Jun 2010 - Jan 2023
:zap: The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT)
Role in this project:Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:107 releases, 6 reviews, 7723 commits in 12 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jose contributed to the Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT) by implementing extra data fields in the `TWaypoint` struct and making adjustments to the `CWaypointsNavigator` to fix potential race conditions when accessing waypoint lists. They also removed obsolete parameters and fixed several build and compile errors, particularly related to GCC-11 and Emscripten builds. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies with several new versions including upgrading to the latest libfyaml version.
mobilerobot-programmingmrptc-plus-plusmobile-robotics
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