​Autonomous Robots Lab

Tung Dang

Lead path planning researcher, core developer of the Graph-based exploration path planner (GBPlanner) used across our legged and flying robots. Responsible for the autonomy stack on the Gagarin robots. Tunnel & Urban Pit Crew.

Frank Mascarich

Lead researcher responsible for system integration across ARL, RSL, and ASL, developer of hardware for aerial robots, of the multi-view fusion for artifacts localization, and of the aerial UI, and co-developer of SMB. Tunnel & Urban Pit Crew.

Mihir Dharmadhikari

Co-lead path planning researcher, co-developer of the Graph-based exploration planner (GBPlanner) used across our legged and flying robots.

Mihir Kulkarni

​ Aerial robots simulation and integration, and artifacts detection research across our legged and flying robots, co-developer of SMB. Finals Pit Crew.

Huan Nguyen

​Flight control across all aerial robots and LiDAR-camera calibration software developer. Co-responsible for the Gagarin/Gaston robots.

Nikhil Khedekar

Perception researcher contributing on CompSLAM, integration for aerial robots and co-developer of SMB. Urban Pit Crew.
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Paolo De Petris

Lead researcher for the collision-tolerant Resilient Micro Flyer robots, co-developer of aerial robots UI. Finals Pit Crew.

Satchel Hirsch

​Artifacts detection across our legged and flying robots. ​
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Christos Papachristos​​​

Early contributor of overall baseline CERBERUS autonomy in perception and planning, system integration for aerial robots. Tunnel Pit Crew. ​

Kostas Alexis

CERBERUS Team Lead and ARL Lead.  



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Robotic Systems Lab

Marco Tranzatto

​Lead engineer and project manager at RSL. Co-lead for the integration of the full software stack, field deployment planning and execution. Human Supervisor for STIX, Tunnel, Urban, and Final Event for Team CERBERUS.
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Samuel Zimmermann

Responsible for hardware customization for ANYmal robot and lead developer of mission state machine. Co-lead the integration of the full software stack and planning for field deployments. Backup Human Supervisor. Urban & Finals Pit Crew.

Shehryar Khattak

Lead Complementary Multi-Modal SLAM researcher (CompSLAM method) used across all our legged and flying robots. Transitioned from ARL to RSL after his PhD and facilitated ultimate CERBERUS integration. Tunnel & Finals Pit Crew.

Timon Homberger

Perception Engineer for the ANYmals, working on multi-modal SLAM and sensor fusion for terrain mapping and object detection. Sensor calibration lead for ANYmal robots.


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Gabriel Waibel

Software engineer responsible for the pan-tilt sensor head and the  bluetooth/gas detection module.

Lorenz Wellhausen

Lead researcher responsible for Legged robot navigation planner. Urban & Finals Pit Crew.​
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Takahiro Miki

​Lead researcher responsible for learning based perceptive locomotion control for ANYmal, and GPU based elevation mapping.


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Markus Montenegro

Lead hardware engineer responsible for the design of all custom parts on the ANYmal C robots used in the Final Event. Major contribution to the custom ANYmal B hardware used in the Urban Circuit. Co-Developer of WiFi Breadcrumb modules.

Fabian Jenelten

Software engineer responsible for the model based locomotion controllers used during STIX and Tunnel Event. STIX, Tunnel, and Urban Pit Crew.

Marko Bjelonic

​Locomotion engineer for ANYmal and ANYmal on Wheels. STIX, Tunnel, and Urban Pit Crew.
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Fabian Dante Tresoldi​​​​

Full software stack developer. STIX and Tunnel Pit Crew.





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Jan Carius

Software engineer responsible for the development of the mission state machine.

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Giorgio Valsecchi

Hardware engineer responsible for the design, manufacturing and assembly of custom parts for ANYmal B robots. Developed deployment mechanism for the Wifi Breadcrumb modules from ANYmal B robot.

Konrad Meyer​​​​​​​

Hardware engineer responsible for the design, development and assembly of Wifi Breadcrumb modules for ANYmal B and C robots.

Marco Hutter

Team lead RSL.

Autonomous Systems Lab

Lukas Bernreiter

​Lead mapping and multi-robot researcher, LiDAR-based mapping.

Victor Reijgwart

Large scale volumetric mapping and exploration planning. Lead on field-soldering repairs.

Marius Fehr

Mapping researcher for distributed mapping.

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Patrick Pfreundschuh

Maplab research engineer, Reporting User Interface, integration with ANYmals and Kolibri drone.

Helen Oleynikova

​Volumetric mapping and path planning.

Florian Tschopp

VersaVIS lead and mapping researcher.
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Olov Andersson

Co-led ASL project in the final year and supervised development of autonomy for the Kolibri drone.

Lionel Ott

Co-led the ASL project in the final year.

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Cesar Cadena

Supervised ASL mapping research.

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Juan Nieto

Co-led ASL project during Tunnel and Urban Circuit events.
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Roland Siegwart

Team Lead ASL.
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Flyability

Lukas Solanka

Full support of the Gagarin drone platform. Integration, tuning, and autonomy engineer. Creation, deployment and maintenance of its SDK. ​

Carolina Godinho

Full support of the Gagarin drone platform. Integration, tuning, and autonomy engineer. Creation, deployment and maintenance of its SDK.

Johannes Loje

Full support of the Gagarin drone platform. Integration, tuning, and autonomy engineer. Creation, deployment and maintenance of its SDK. ​

Basil Huber

Full support of the Gagarin drone platform. Integration, tuning, and autonomy engineer. Creation, deployment and maintenance of its SDK

Mathieu Valceschini

Full support of the Gagarin drone platform. Integration, tuning, and autonomy engineer. Creation, deployment and maintenance of its SDK. ​

Adrien Briod

Team Lead at Flyability



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HiPeR Lab

Junseok Lee

Aerial robot path planning; bluetooth localization.

Xiangyu Wu

Aerial robot path planning; bluetooth localization. ​

Mark Mueller

Team Lead UCBerkeley.

Dynamic Robot Systems Group

Marco Camurri

Co-developed VILENS state estimator and its testing on ANYmal robots during field trials. Supported Tunnel Circuit event robot preparation and during the final integration tests in the UK and in Zurich.

David Wisth

Lead developer of VILENS tested on ANYmal robot. Supported Urban Circuit event robot preparation.
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Benoit Casseau

Lead software engineer for ORI. Led the software integration and field testing of ORI’s ANYmal robot during integration tests in the UK and in Zurich.

Wayne Tubby

Lead hardware engineer for ORI. Led the hardware integration of ORI’s ANYmal robot during integration tests in the UK and in Zurich.

Russell Buchanan

Main contribution as embedded systems engineer at RSL before joining ORI. Developed the sensor head for ANYmal B. STIX & Tunnel Pit Crew.
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Lintong Zhang

Developed multi-camera odometry module in VILENS. Supported robot testing.
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Matias Mattamala

Supported robot testing.

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Maurice Fallon

Team lead Oxford.

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