Patrick Hickey

I live in Portland, Oregon and work on embedded systems at Galois.

In my spare time I contribute to the open source ArduPilot project.

I've also been working on Mavelous, an open source web app for controlling ArduPilot (or other drones) from your laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Check out the online demo.

You can find my projects on Github.

Past

I studied Electrical Engineering at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Some work from my time there:

An essay on the problem of structure and reality in Nabokov's Pnin and Pale Fire, for Professor W.C. Dowling's English 220.
Trajectory-Aware Communication Solution for Underwater Gliders Using WHOI Micro-Modems, Proceedings of IEEE SECON 2010, with Baozhi Chen and Dr. Dario Pompili.
A technical report on the Rutgers Autonomous Aircraft Team's 2010 entry to the AUVSI UAS competition.
A Quaternion Kalman Filter for attitude and heading estimation, written in Haskell. Watch a quick demo.
A port of the Paparazzi Autopilot software to Linux.
A report and demonstration of my semester-long project in Professor K. Dana's Robotics and Computer Vision.