Zachary Taylor
Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Taylor is a senior researcher with 15 years’ experience developing autonomous micro-aerial systems, combining a PhD in Mechatronics and robotics research on camera–LiDAR calibration with a long tenure at ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Systems Lab. His work spans perception, state estimation, mapping, planning and control, with an emphasis on real-time, onboard solutions that let robots operate and perform useful tasks in unstructured environments. He is a pragmatic backend developer and active open-source contributor to widely used tools such as voxblox, the MSF sensor-fusion framework, RotorS simulator and lidar calibration libraries, improving robustness through better outlier rejection, mesh integration and ICP implementations. Based in Zurich, he pairs deep algorithmic expertise with hands-on system engineering—often addressing the practical limits of algorithms in simulation and hardware rather than only theory.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 1st Class Honors, Bachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 1st Class Honors at University of CanterburyThe University of Sydney
Github Skills (22)
algorithm10
pcl10
algorithms10
robotics10
c-language10
gazebosim10
simulator10
point-cloud-library10
data-structure10
mappings10
eigen10
sensor-fusion10
data-structures10
cprogramming-language10
point-cloud10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ethz-asl/voxblox
May 2016 - Nov 2018
A library for flexible voxel-based mapping, mainly focusing on truncated and Euclidean signed distance fields.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:305 commits, 72 PRs, 151 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zachary made several commits focused on improving color blending within the voxblox library, including refactoring the color handling code to improve accuracy. They also exposed a "min mesh weight" parameter in the mesh integrator to control surface generation. Additional commits involved starting the implementation of a new interpolator, indicating a focus on improving the underlying functionality of the library.
roboticsvoxbloxfocusingsdfsigned
ethz-asl/lidar_align
Oct 2016 - Nov 2018
A simple method for finding the extrinsic calibration between a 3D lidar and a 6-dof pose sensor
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 18 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Zachary appears to be developing the core functionality of a lidar-based system, focusing on extrinsic calibration between a 3D lidar and a 6-dof pose sensor. Their contributions include implementing Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithms for point cloud alignment. The commits reveal changes to the ICP implementation and the development of tools for sensor fusion and data processing.
extrinsic3d-lidarfindingmethodpcl
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