Nunzio Barone
PhD Student at Politecnico di Bari
Corato, Apulia, Italy
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Top SchoolNunzio Barone is a PhD student in Automation Engineering at Politecnico di Bari specializing in mobile robotics, computer vision and multi-UAV systems, with eight years of hands-on experience building control and embedded software. He combines academic research—recently exploring MARL-based velocity control for UAV swarms during a visiting stint at NTNU—with practical engineering skills in C++ and Python from developing telemetry, CAN bus and MQTT-based systems for automotive and robotic platforms. Nunzio’s work spans simulation-driven research (Isaac Lab) and real-world integration on Linux/Raspbian targets, reflecting a strong bridge between theory and deployable systems. He is comfortable across the stack of perception, control and distributed coordination for multi-robot teams and actively experiments with swarm behaviors. Based in Corato, Italy, he brings both formal automation training and field-facing software engineering experience to tackle complex autonomy problems. A detail that sets him apart is his transition from embedded automotive telemetry to leading-edge UAV swarm research, showing a knack for translating vehicle-scale sensing and networking expertise into aerial robotics.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Magistrale LM, Ingegneria dell'automazione, Laurea Magistrale LM, Ingegneria dell'automazione at Politecnico di BariDiploma di maturità, Manutenzione assistenza tecnica/ operatore elettrico, Diploma di maturità, Manutenzione assistenza tecnica/ operatore elettrico at IPSIA Galileo Ferraris Ragusa
Github Skills (36)
controlling9
depth-camera8
depth-estimation8
tellodrone8
robotics7
python7
stereo6
opencv6
drones6
3d-reconstruction5
agile5
feature-matching5
object-detection5
computer-vision5
visual-odometry5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Nunzio03/follow-me-drone
May 2020 - Jun 2021
my bachelor's degree thesis project about controlling a DJI Tello drone
Contributions:52 commits, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year
telloroboticspythonopencv-contrib-pythontellodrone
Nunzio03/DJI-Tello-Drone-ComputerVision
Aug 2019 - May 2020
my DJI TELLO project about computer vision
Contributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 9 months
pytorchtellovisiondeep-learningobject-detection
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