Andrea Okerholm Huttlin
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Principal Robotic navigation specialist 20+ YOE, iRobot
Principal Robotic navigation specialist 20+ YOE, iRobot
Principal robotics software engineer and technical team leader with broad experience building advanced mobile robots for millions of consumer homes. Domain expertise in SLAM (VSLAM), floor cleaning robots, and modern C++.
Specialties: Mobile Robotics, Localization/Navigation, SLAM, Software Engineering.
19 years of experience at iRobot shipping software for consumer navigating robots.
Notable projects: Roomba, Scooba, Terra, Create 2, autonomous boat
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-04:00)
Joined May 2024
EXPERTISE
10 years experience
I have been working continuously in professional robotics development for over 20 years, shipping software to millions of robots in the f...
I have been working continuously in professional robotics development for over 20 years, shipping software to millions of robots in the field.
10 years experience
I am a principal developer working on Roomba's VSLAM system.
See my LinkedIn for papers published in this domain.
I am a principal developer working on Roomba's VSLAM system.
See my LinkedIn for papers published in this domain.
10 years experience
5 years experience
I am a principal engineer and team lead and am happy to help you work on achieving your next promotion.
I am a principal engineer and team lead and am happy to help you work on achieving your next promotion.
10 years experience
10 years experience
10 years experience
Early Roomba models were entirely embedded; I worked on everything from battery charging to bootloaders to motor control. This experience...
Early Roomba models were entirely embedded; I worked on everything from battery charging to bootloaders to motor control. This experience ended in 2013, so some of my knowledge may be outdated.
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EMPLOYMENTS
Senior Principal Robotics Engineer
iRobot
2005-04-01-Present
I have written software for many generations of Roomba, Scooba, and Terra floor cleaning and lawn mowing robots. My current specializatio...
I have written software for many generations of Roomba, Scooba, and Terra floor cleaning and lawn mowing robots. My current specialization is SLAM/navigation/localization. In the past I have also worked on embedded firmware, robot behavior, a custom Lisp-based compiler, and battery charging. See my LinkedIn page for a full resume.
Python
C++
Computer Vision
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Python
C++
Computer Vision
Common Lisp
Graph Algorithms
Embedded Systems
Robotics Engineering
2D/3D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
2d/3d navigation
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Software Engineer II
Northrop Grumman
2001-05-01-2005-04-01
Software architecture for an autonomous river navigating boat for DARPA.
Software architecture for an autonomous river navigating boat for DARPA.
C++
MATLAB
Robotics Engineering
C++
MATLAB
Robotics Engineering