Terry Scott Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Spearheaded technical initiatives and acted as architect and advisory to CTO and team leads
• Led implementations of new functionality and validation metrics across SLAM and perception
• Overhauled testing infrastructure, simplifying the writing and running of log-replay integration tests
• Developed API for customers to command the robot using their hardware over serial and ethernet
• Implemented company-wide software quality and architecture guidelines and best practices

Philadelphia

• Led the product development from proof-of-concept through to commercially viable product achieving sales of over 200 units.
• Designed and implemented the navigation stack, including sensor integration
• Wrote code for the foundations of SLAM, control, tracking, and supporting infrastructure
• Built and led the technical team of 20+ engineers specializing in hardware, software, and robotics

Philadelphia

• Wrote code extensively for mapping, planning, sensor-fusion and systems in C++ and Python within ROS
• Improved the state-machine, enabling successful autonomous store floor traversal missions
• Developed autonomous exploration and mapping capability; showcased to internal stakeholders
• Created visualization tools to show robot navigation and status over limited network availability

• Developed automated target-free calibration for lidar-camera systems for autonomous vehicles
• A statistical method for targetless calibration between a lidar and camera whose FoVs don't necessarily overlap [1]
• Outlier rejection for natural scenes that don't provide enough statistical information for auto-calibration [2]
• Lidar-camera calibration by matching image features[1] Scott T., Morye A., Paz L., Piniés P., Posner I. & Newman P. 2015Exploiting Known Unknowns: Scene Induced Cross-Calibration of Lidar-Stereo SystemsIEEE Intelligent.

Krugersdorp, South Africa

• Set up and managed a production line which delivered 17 000 landmine roller wheels over a 5 month period.
• Implemented quality control measures to meet strict military requirements
• Automated a large part of the production by programming Fanuc robots for welding and CNC-lathe part placement automation
• Designed the 30' x 50' steel rolling doors for a new warehouse built on the premises

Doctor Of Philosophy, Engineering Science

Bsc, Electro-Mechanical Engineering

First Class Honours 2007 - Engineering Drawing Class Medal, 2009 - Winning team of the robot building competition 2007-2010 - Dean's Merit.

Matric, Ieb

Distinctions in: Mathematics, Additional Mathematics, Physical Science, Accounting, Computer Studies, English