Vasan Iyer
🛰️ | Embedded Software | Flight Control | FPGA | Power Electronics | AI Engineer
Welcome to my portfolio. I engineer systems where advanced hardware physics meets real-time intelligent software, translating complex mathematical control models into deterministic, physical production code running on bare-metal systems.
I enjoy developing embedded software and intelligent aerospace systems, flight control software, real-time software, sensor fusion, FPGA design, and power electronics.
This portfolio highlights production-style engineering projects spanning autonomous UAV systems, embedded avionics, power electronics, digital hardware, and artificial intelligence.
🧬 Core Engineering Pillars & Repositories
🛸 Avionics, Autonomous Systems & UAV Development
- Capabilities: Flight Control • Embedded Avionics • PX4 • ROS2 • Software Architecture
- 🛠️ Featured Project: Embedded Avionics Sensor Platform
- 🛠️ Featured Project: UAV Flight Controls Portfolio
- 🛠️ Featured Project: Autonomous uav Avionics Control Stack
- 🛠️ Featured Project: PX4 Avionics Sensor Monitor
✈️ Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC)
- Capabilities: Flight Dynamics • Guidance • Navigation • Optimal Control • 6-DOF Simulation
- 🛠️ Featured Project: Interceptor GNC 6-DOF Optimal Control Framework
- 🛠️ Featured Project: Lifting-Body GNC: 6-DOF Simulation of the NASA HL-20
💻 Embedded Systems & FPGAs (FPGA Interfacing and Signal Processing)
- Capabilities: Embedded C/C++ • STM32 • QNX • Embedded Linux • FPGA • Hardware Interfaces
- 🛠️ Featured Project: STM32 CAN Telemetry Node
- 🛠️ Featured Project: FPGA Projects Portfolio
- 🛠️ Featured Project: Intel FPGA DE10 Embedded DSP & Measurement System
🧠 Robotics, Sensor Fusion & Perception
- Capabilities: Kalman Filtering • State Estimation • Multi-Sensor Fusion • AI Perception
- 🛠️ Featured Project: Multi-Object Radar Tracking
- 🛠️ Featured Project: Sensor Fusion Portfolio
📡 Digital Signal Processing (DSP) & Radar Pipelines
- Capabilities: FFT • Radar Signal Processing • Digital Filtering • High-Speed FPGA DSP
- 🛠️ Featured Project: S32R45 Radar Processing Pipeline (SiL)
- 🛠️ Featured Project: FPGA-Based Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer
⚡ Power Electronics & Motor Control
- Capabilities: DC-DC Converters • Motor Drives • Embedded Power Control • Digital Power Electronics
🔋 Structural Energy Storage
- Capabilities: Materials science for multifunctional composites and structural sodium-ion batteries optimizing flight efficiency.
🛠️ Technical Skills & Toolchain
🚁 Flight Control & Autonomous Systems
- PX4 Autopilot, ArduPilot, QGroundControl
- ROS2, Gazebo
- Software-in-the-Loop (SITL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)
💻 Embedded Software
- C, C++, Python, Embedded C, VHDL
- STM32, QNX RTOS, Embedded Linux
- CMake, Git, Object-Oriented Design
📡 Sensor Fusion & Navigation
- Kalman Filtering
- State Estimation
- IMU, GNSS
- UAV Navigation
🔲 FPGA & Digital Systems
- Intel Quartus
- Xilinx Vivado
- FPGA Design
- Digital Signal Processing
⚡ Power Electronics
- Power Electronics
- DC-DC Converters
- Motor Drives
- Power Conversion
- Embedded Power Control
🤖 Artificial Intelligence
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- OpenCV
- Reinforcement Learning
🔧 Engineering Tools
- MATLAB / Simulink
- Altium Designer
- KiCad
- LTspice
- ANSYS
- CATIA V5
🛡️ Systems Engineering & Safety
- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) & SysML
- Familiarity with DO-178C / DO-331 development and verification concepts
- V-model development cycle, system integration, and verification
- Hardware/Software design for safety-critical systems
Current Engineering Interests
- Autonomous Flight Control
- Embedded Aerospace Software
- UAV Navigation & Sensor Fusion
- FPGA-Based Digital Systems
- Power Electronics & Motor Control
- AI for Autonomous Systems
🎓 Academic Credentials
- M.Sc. Aeronautical & Space Systems – ISAE-SUPAERO (Toulouse, France)
- M.S. Electrical Engineering – University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, USA)
- M.S. Artificial Intelligence – University of Texas at Austin (Austin, USA)
- M.Sc. Nanotechnology – RPTU Kaiserslautern (Kaiserslautern, Germany)
🌐 Connect & Track My Work
- 👔 Professional Network: LinkedIn Profile
- 💻 Code & Repositories: GitHub Profile
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📝 Academic Citations: Google Scholar ResearchGate ORCID iD - 📱 Updates & Research Notes: @iyer_vasan on X (Twitter)