Pierre Kancir
Ingénieur Recherche Développement at Collège numérique France 2030
Greater Rennes Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre Kancir is an R&D robotics engineer with 11+ years’ experience designing, simulating and deploying mobile robotic systems for both aerial and terrestrial platforms, currently working at AISPRID and directing Hivebotics. A long-time ArduPilot core contributor and code reviewer, he blends embedded C++ and Python expertise with ROS, MAVLink and simulation integration—having improved flagship projects like ArduPilot, MAVProxy, MAVROS and QGroundControl. His background spans academia (PhD on swarm synchronization) to industry delivery (first autonomous UAV with docking at Azur Drones), demonstrating strength in system engineering, CI/CD and hardware-in-the-loop simulation. Pierre is highly active in FOSS robotics, contributing both code and documentation across high-profile repos, and often tackles tricky cross-domain problems like protocol generation and CI automation. An understated asset: he repeatedly bridges research and productization, turning simulation prototypes into certified, operational systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer - Graduate at Mines Nantes Automation and Industrial Computing, Engineer - Graduate at Mines Nantes Automation and Industrial Computing at IMT AtlantiquePhD in robotic field Mechatronics robotics and automation engineering, PhD in robotic field Mechatronics robotics and automation engineering at University of South BrittanyPreparatory classes for the grandes écoles, Preparatory classes for the grandes écoles at Lycée RaspailBaccalauréat Scientifique, Baccalauréat Scientifique at Lycée Militaire de Saint-Cyr - Alumni
Github Skills (38)
simulation10
debug10
maintenance10
c-language10
restructuredtext10
gazebosim10
autopilot10
qt10
py10
python10
scripting10
mavlink10
simulations10
bash10
cicd10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
khancyr/ardupilot_gazebo
Apr 2017 - Jun 2019
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 8 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily focused on modifications within the ArduPilotPlugin, suggesting a role in adapting or integrating ArduPilot with the Gazebo simulator. Their contributions included minor corrections, downgrading to an ArduPilot master version, adding missing headers, and incorporating a gimbal model, indicating a focus on simulation fidelity and hardware integration. Further modifications involve removing older and deprecated methods, suggesting code modernization within the plugin.
ArduPilot/pymavlink
Sep 2016 - Sep 2022
python MAVLink interface and utilities
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 35 commits, 33 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily contributed to the `pymavlink` repository by modifying the `generator/mavgen.py` and `setup.py` files. These changes involved refactoring code to use the lxml library for XML validation and protocol generation, removing dependencies on older libraries. Additionally, the user updated syntax and improved the python3 support for existing functionality. Overall, their work focused on improving the core functionality and maintainability of the MAVLink message generation tools.
mavlinkpython
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