Lupashin, Sergei, Dr.

Bio

I founded and now run a startup called Perspective Robotics. We are building the Fotokite, a novel tethered flying camera for journalism and the like.

I received my PhD at ETH Zurich working on aerial robotics, under the direction of Prof. Raffaello D'Andrea. During my five years at ETH I was a chief architect of the Flying Machine Arena, contributing in a variety of areas from middleware and electronics design to software and controls architecture.

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• Prehistory - classical piano, programming competitions
• 2003-2005 - RoboCup Small-Size League - Cornell Big Red - Machine Vision, Goalie AI, CS infrastructure. Overly dramatic 2003 final.
• 2005 - DARPA Grand Challenge - Team Cornell - machine vision, LIDAR, other sensors, high-velocity path-planning. A bunch of early-20s guys with really big RC cars in the Mojave desert
• 2006 - B.S. In Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell
• 2006 - Engineer at NextGen Aeronautics - SBIRs/STTRs in novel sensors, FEM, EA structure optimization
• 2007 - DARPA Urban Challenge - Team Cornell - LIDAR clustering, actuation, infrastructure. A handful of slightly-older guys playing with more big RC cars in upstate NY / Mojave
• 2010 - M.S. in Mechanical Engineering - ETH Zürich - Thesis Topic: Adaptive Fast Flips for Quadrocopters
• 2010 - Roof of the World Rally (Switzerland to Tajikistan), team 'Blue Skies' with Rahel Strässle
• 2012 - Burning Man 2012, ReAllocate, advisor. Dusty multicopters.
• 2012 - Completed Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at ETH Zürich. Advisor: Raffaello D'Andrea.
• Now - ETH Spinoff 'Fotokite' and postdoc work at the RPG at the Universität Zürich.

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