Ricardo Marques
Robotics Systems Engineer at Sunflower Labs
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Marques is a Robotics Systems Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing, building and deploying autonomous UAV systems, combining a Mechanical Engineering MEng and a Mechatronics/Robotics master's background. He has led end-to-end development at Skypull—taking systems from manual to fully autonomous flight—while contributing low-level fixes and feature work to the widely used PX4 autopilot (including tilt-quad mixers, MAVLink improvements and UAVCAN energy-regeneration ESC integration). At Sunflower Labs he manages drone and ground-station software, release processes and fleet orchestration with Docker and Ansible, and is fluent in C++, ROS/ROS2 and PX4. An open-source advocate and PX4 Dev team contributor, he excels at making robust engineering trade-offs under tight timelines and incomplete information. Outside work he channels curiosity into rapid prototyping, field testing and building custom PC/robotics projects, reflecting a pragmatic blend of hardware intuition and software craftsmanship.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Aalto UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Mechanical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
embedded10
px410
autopilot10
sys10
mavlink10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
drones8
pwm8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
Jun 2018 - Jan 2021
PX4 Autopilot Software
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 12 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo's contributions primarily involve modifying and extending the PX4 autopilot software. Their work includes implementing and configuring mixers for tilt-quadrotor configurations, fixing sensor-related parameters, and improving the Mavlink communication protocol, including publishing ESC information. They also addressed minor issues like comment typos and added parameters for extra PWM output, indicating a focus on low-level control and system integration.
multicopteravoidancedroneuasraspberry-pi
RicardoM17/Firmware
May 2018 - Aug 2021
PX4 Pro Autopilot Software
Contributions:49 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 3 months
autopilotpx4raspberry-pimavlink
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