Richard Roberts
Senior Research Engineer at SLAMcore Limited
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Roberts is a Senior Research Engineer based in Barcelona with 16 years of experience specializing in guidance, navigation, and control for drones and robotic platforms. He has driven perception and GNC systems at Wing and now applies SLAM and real-world mapping expertise at SLAMcore, bridging academic robotics research from his Georgia Tech PhD to production-grade systems. His background combines deep algorithmic work—sensor fusion, state estimation and control—with hands-on implementation for airborne platforms, giving him fluency across research prototypes and deployed autonomy. Colleagues would note his ability to translate complex navigation theory into robust, testable software for constrained hardware. He brings a pragmatic researcher's mindset to product development, often focusing on the interface between perception pipelines and control loops to improve reliability in challenging environments.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (10)
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cprogramming-language10
linear-algebra10
data-structure9
robotics9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
lib8
unit-testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
haidai/gtsam
Aug 2009 - Nov 2014
Contributions:1863 commits in 5 years 4 months
IntelRealSense/librealsense
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Intel® RealSense™ SDK
Contributions:5 comments, 4 issues in 1 month
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