Andrea Raffin Email & Phone Number

Paudex, Vaud, Switzerland

Pordenone Area, Italy

▪ Designed, prototyped, debugged, maintained and managed the batch manufacturing of a wide variety of PCB boards, comprising STM32 microcontrollers and peripheral ICs implementing CAN BUS, SPI, I2C, encoders, motor drivers, with special care over safety and galvanic isolation of modules.▪ Designed and coded firmwares for STM32 (F0, F1, F4, L0, L4) using a mixture of STMCube HAL, FreeRTOS and low level registers (CAN BUS, SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, Timers, Sleep modes).▪ Customized and… Show more ▪ Designed, prototyped, debugged, maintained and managed the batch manufacturing of a wide variety of PCB boards, comprising STM32 microcontrollers and peripheral ICs implementing CAN BUS, SPI, I2C, encoders, motor drivers, with special care over safety and galvanic isolation of modules.▪ Designed and coded firmwares for STM32 (F0, F1, F4, L0, L4) using a mixture of STMCube HAL, FreeRTOS and low level registers (CAN BUS, SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, Timers, Sleep modes).▪ Customized and maintained part of the UAV autopilot firmware▪ Designed and maintained a Qt5/C++ GUI application to display and record the 3-axis camera gimbal video stream (using FFMPEG C APIs) as well as moving it and interact with the firmwares on boards using a custom-designed serial protocol.▪ Researched and implemented target geolocalization by computer vision▪ Designed and maintained a FLIR Lepton carrier board, connected to a Linux board with TFT screen and Qt5/C++ GUI.▪ Became highly proficient in using laboratory and prototyping equipment (soldering iron, reflow oven, bench supply, oscilloscope, thermal imaging) Show less

Researched for wireless (non-GNSS based) positioning systems and implemented Kalman Filter for position filtering using MATLAB Code Generation.Created and maintained embedded C++ and Python code to manage motors, encoders, ultrasonic sensors, and steering for a prototype of self-driving industrial vacuum cleaner.

Torino, Italia

With the goal of developing a fully autonomous car prototype, my main activity was to research and implement a longitudinal vehicle control algorithm capable of:-reducing the number of identification parameters with respect to the current architecture-maintaining a comfort acceleration-achieve robustness to parameters variations. By thorough analysis of the state-of-the-art, I was able to identify the best solutions. Then I chose to implement a particular adaptive technique,… Show more With the goal of developing a fully autonomous car prototype, my main activity was to research and implement a longitudinal vehicle control algorithm capable of:-reducing the number of identification parameters with respect to the current architecture-maintaining a comfort acceleration-achieve robustness to parameters variations. By thorough analysis of the state-of-the-art, I was able to identify the best solutions. Then I chose to implement a particular adaptive technique, achieving a robust control of the longitudinal dynamics starting from an approximate knowledge of the parameter values of a commercial vehicle. (Master Thesis work "Control design of the vehicle longitudinal dynamics for autonomous driving").On the technical side, I acquired a good knowledge and understanding of the vehicle dynamics and the tools for its analysis and simulation (CarSim along with Matlab/Simulink), as well as the Model-Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) technique.Moreover, I gained crucial personal skills such as team work, business timing and the ability to organize my work and respect imposed deadlines. Show less

Trieste, Italia

Thesis work in "Control of a piezoelectric nanopositioner in force measurements with optical tweezers".I developed a LabVIEW program able to display, record and analyze force measurements (coming from an optical tweezers laser laboratory setup) and to control the position of a piezoelectric nanopositioner stage containing in vitro living cells. Moreover, I developed a post-processing algorithm to clean the force data from the nanopositioner actions.

Master'S Degree, Mechatronic Engineering, 99

(Course entirely held in English) Relevant courses: Modelling and simulation of Mechatronic Systems, Robotics, System identification.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electronic Engineering, 95

Relevant courses: Combinational logic, FPGA, DSP & Microcontrollers, Electrical measurements, Electronic instrumentation, Power.