Lucas Waelti
PHD Student at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolLucas Waelti is a robotics engineer and PhD student at EPFL with eight years of experience designing autonomous systems, particularly for indoor, GPS-denied environments. He brings hands-on expertise in control systems, mobile robot simulation (Webots), ROS, and software development in C/C++, Python, Matlab and Java, cultivated through industry-focused research and a master thesis at Schindler on fully autonomous elevator-shaft inspection drones. His work spans academia and industry—from adapting DRL-trained bipedal robots to developing navigation algorithms for ModalAI quadcopters—demonstrating a practical ability to bridge simulation and real-world deployment. Based in Lausanne, he combines mechatronics and microengineering foundations with aviation-maintenance training from the Swiss Armed Forces, an unusual background that sharpens his systems thinking and attention to safety-critical detail.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneBachelor's degree, Erasmus, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Erasmus, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Technische Universität München
Github Skills (55)
webots10
physics-engine10
simulation10
robotics10
simulator10
firmware10
open-source10
usb10
robot10
autonomous-vehicles10
robot-simulator10
ai10
computer-vision10
robotics-simulation10
fluid-dynamics10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
LucasWaelti/Porting-DeepLoco-into-Webots
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 52 pushes, 2 branches in 10 days
LucasWaelti/Cozmo
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Repository about software controlling the robot Cozmo from the Anki company
Contributions:64 commits, 6 PRs, 63 pushes in 6 months
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