Kanishke Gamagedara
Team Lead - Sensor Fusion And Navigation
Tinton Falls, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKanishke Gamagedara is a sensor fusion and navigation engineer with 10 years of experience, now leading the Sensor Fusion and Navigation team at Kearfott. He specializes in GNSS/INS integration, safety-critical DO-178c-compliant embedded systems, and model-based design using Simulink to take algorithms from requirements through SIL/PIL testing to certified code. His PhD work built and flight-tested an autonomous UAV capable of shipboard landings, combining adaptive geometric control and delay-compensated EKF state estimation with 100% onboard vision processing. Previously he advanced vision-based autonomous landing systems and sensor validation at American Robotics, and has a strong track record of integrating novel sensors and failure-mode analyses into real-world UAV systems. Known for bridging rigorous academic research with production-grade embedded software, he brings both hands-on C++/autogenerated code integration and systems-level verification to navigation-grade hardware.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Eng Mechanical Engineering, BSc Eng Mechanical Engineering at University of PeradeniyaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The George Washington University
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (39)
simulation10
opencv10
gazebosim10
controller10
simulator10
aruco10
geometric10
cpp10
gazebo-simulator10
augmented-reality9
python9
pose-estimation9
ros9
control-systems9
matlab8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
fdcl-gwu/uav_simulator
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
Python - Gazebo Simulation Environment for a UAV with Geometric Control
Contributions:3 releases, 21 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 8 months
pythonsimulationrosgazebogazebo-simulator
fdcl-gwu/uav_geometric_control
Jun 2020 - Mar 2022
Geometric controllers developed at FDCL for UAVs
Contributions:28 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
controllerpx4geometricmavlinkgazebosim
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