Nicolas Martin
Control System & Software Engineer at Elistair
Greater Lyon Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Martin is a Control System & Software Engineer with six years of experience designing and implementing embedded control and GNC algorithms for drones and robotic systems. Based in the Greater Lyon Area, he has led teams at Parrot—scaling from hands-on control design to managing 15 engineers responsible for sensor selection, state estimation, and production validation—and currently drives control systems and software at Elistair. He contributes to the prominent open-source PX4 Autopilot project, adding sensor calibration, temperature compensation, and simulated sensor behavior improvements that bridge simulation and hardware. Trained as an electrical engineer at INSA Lyon with a background in signal processing, he blends rigorous modeling and MATLAB/Simulink experience with practical embedded firmware delivery. Notably, his work spans the full product lifecycle from algorithm prototyping to embedded implementation and production testing, making him as comfortable in code as on the test bench.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur en génie electrique option traitement du signal et de l'image, Genie Électrique / traitement du signal, Diplôme d'ingénieur en génie electrique option traitement du signal et de l'image, Genie Électrique / traitement du signal at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Github Skills (11)
embedded10
px410
sens10
calibration10
autopilot10
sys10
cal10
mavlink9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
python8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
Jan 2020 - May 2022
PX4 Autopilot Software
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 32 commits, 41 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the PX4 Autopilot software by addressing specific issues and implementing enhancements within the embedded systems context. They removed parameter units, modified logging behavior to selectively log instances of a topic, and corrected a comment in a quaternion header file. Additionally, they added features to a sensor calibration tool and made several improvements related to temperature compensation and sensor handling. This included changes to multiple files relating to temperature compensation, arming authorization, and the SIH (Simulation In Hardware) module for simulated sensor behavior.
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NicolasM0/px4_user_guide
Dec 2019 - Aug 2023
PX4 User Guide
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 8 months
px4user-guide
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