About

Gender

Male


Location

Lisboa


About Me:

I am a co-founder and technical manager for a UAV company called Spin.Works based in Lisbon, Portugal. My work focuses on Hybrid IMU/GPS/Vision-Based Navigation, Entry Vehicle GNC, and Hazard Detection and Avoidance applied to planetary missions


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

My company is focused on developing small-scale UAVs for civil applications such as agriculture, forestry, cartography, etc. We also work frequently with the European Space Agency on technology research applicable to planetary missions, which we tend to end up using on our UAVs.


Hometown:

Lisboa


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Nncardoso commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ESA does another copter-rover drop, this time with awesomely over-the-top music
"Things which might be of interest for those interested in the technologies behind this:
1) Vision-based navigation is based on feature template matching, followed by a random sample consensus-based homography estimation algorithm. Then this…"
Jul 24, 2014
Nncardoso commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ESA does another copter-rover drop, this time with awesomely over-the-top music
"Just a note about the project: two papers were recently published at the ESA GNC Conference, which might be a good, let's say, "complement" to the video. Lots of details there."
Jul 24, 2014