Robotics Software Engineer

at COPPE/UFRJ

Jul 2013 — Dec 2019

LEAD & LabCon Laboratories — Autonomous drones, subsea robots, mining inspection, and inertially stabilized platforms.

Key achievements

Authored two project proposals accepted by Repsol Sinopec and Vale (Brazil's largest mining company), securing 5 years of research funding.
Wrote the software system for a mining inspection robot and validated it on-site at Vale's Port of Tubarão, one of the world's largest iron loading ports.
Researched and implemented real-time nonlinear control algorithms that ensured target tracking with 0.01 degree precision on an inertially stabilized platform.
Designed a high-fidelity simulation environment to validate autonomous take-off and landing on small watercrafts for the ARIEL drone project.
Refactored a legacy C/C++ stack to modern C++ standards, improving performance and stability across two subsea robotics projects.