Tom Queen
Principle Robotics Architect at Extend Robotics
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Queen is a Principal Robotics Architect based in Bristol with nine years' experience building and productionising robot software, and over five years focused on ROS, C++, and Python. He has driven research-to-product work in supervised learning for system dynamics and control (MPC, MLPs, recurrent nets) and applied reinforcement learning to challenging in-hand manipulation with dexterous robot hands. At Shadow Robot he progressed from engineer to senior roles and contributed to the widely used Universal Robots ROS driver—adding parameterized gains, non-blocking reads, and wrench-interface improvements to make integration more robust. Now at Extend Robotics he combines hands-on algorithm development with DevOps-minded infrastructure choices to deliver reliable robotic systems. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs rigorous control intuition with pragmatic engineering to move lab innovations into field-ready products.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Robotic Engineering , Master of Engineering - MEng Robotic Engineering at University of Plymouth
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
UniversalRobots/Universal_Robots_ROS_Driver
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Universal Robots ROS driver supporting CB3 and e-Series
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 25 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on improving the core functionalities of the UR robot driver. They updated the `hardware_interface.cpp` and `ur_driver.cpp` files, likely involving improvements to robot control and data handling. Furthermore, the user parameterized gains and added the `non_blocking_read` feature, enhancing the driver's flexibility and potentially its integration with other systems. The user also added a prefix to the wrench hardware interface.
roboticsros2ros-melodicros-industrialuniversal-robots
shadow-robot/shadow_dexterous_hand
Feb 2022 - Oct 2023
Meta package for the Shadow Dexterous Hand.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 57 pushes in 1 year 8 months
handmetameta-packageshadow
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