Matt Anderson

Matt Anderson

Staff Scientist (CMS)

Caltech

Field roboticist, aero engineer, and low-level programmer who is always looking for the next challenging adventure. Whether the mission is deep underground or high in the air, I can duck tape, hot glue, and hack my way to success.

While you’re here, check out my projects, publications, and feel free to contact me below.

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Interests
  • Field Robotics
  • UAS
  • Adventure
Education

  • PhD in Aeronautics, 2018

    The University of Sydney and Université Libre de Bruxelles

  • B.Eng (Aeronautics) Hons I, 2011

    The University of Sydney

Extreme Environment
Field Testing
System Integration
and Architecture
UAS Pilot /
Ground Station Operator
Embedded Systems
C/C++, ROS
Rapid Prototyping
and Design
Aircraft Design /
System Identification

Projects

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Hardware Designs
A collection of hardware designs and PCBs
Code
Hardware Designs
AFA
Developing a next-generation flight test platform for autonomy algorithm development
Website
AFA
DARTS
Distributed Aperture RADAR Tomographic Sensors for mapping the surface topography and vegetation structures of planet Earth
DARTS
F9P GPS Logger Board
A simple, OpenLog-based logger for the ArduSimple simpleRTK2Blite F9P GPS.
github
F9P GPS Logger Board
kvis
A MATLAB-based, fully-featured flight log analysis program for ArduPilot, PX4 and more
Code
kvis
SQUID
A launchable quadrotor designed to deploy quickly and safely from a vehicle
PDF
SQUID
SubT
Team CoStar takes on the DARPA Subterranean Challenge to explore, map, and locate artifacts in underground environments
Website
SubT
swarmAI
A self-improving, neural tree expansion method for multi-robot online planning in non-cooperative environments
PDF
swarmAI
Teensy 4.0 Breakout Board
A breakout board for the Teensy 4.0
github
Teensy 4.0 Breakout Board
Volcano Drone
A UAV-borne system to autonomously locate and sample volcanic fumaroles
PDF
Volcano Drone
ulg Reader (MATLAB)
Import PX4 ulg files into MATLAB
Code
ulg Reader (MATLAB)
Arduino Software
A collection of Arduino drivers and utilities
Code Slides
Arduino Software
R/C Fun
Photos of fun R/C stuff
uav-lab.org
R/C Fun

Lastest Publications

Online Self-Supervised Thermal Water Segmentation for Aerial Vehicles
We present a new method to adapt an RGB-trained water segmentation network to target-domain aerial thermal imagery using online …
Connor Lee, Jonathan Gustafsson Frennert, Lu Gan, Matthew Anderson, Soon-Jo Chung
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Online Self-Supervised Thermal Water Segmentation for Aerial Vehicles
UAV-Borne Bistatic Sar and Insar Experiments in Support of STV and SDC Target Observables
The ongoing Distributed Aperture Radar Tomographic Sensors (DARTS) project at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory aims to mature and …
Se-Yeon Jeon, Brian Hawkins, Samuel Prager, Matthew Anderson, Stefano Moro, Robert Beauchamp, Eric Loria, Soon-Jo Chung, Marco Lavalle
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UAV-Borne Bistatic Sar and Insar Experiments in Support of STV and SDC Target Observables
UAS Flight Testing in Support of Research for Academia: Lessons and Experiences from the Field
Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and miniaturized high-performance computing have enabled flight testing to become incredibly …
Matthew Anderson, Kai Lehmkuehler, Jeremy Randle, K.C. Wong, Soon-Jo Chung
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UAS Flight Testing in Support of Research for Academia: Lessons and Experiences from the Field
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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Staff Scientist
Caltech
Oct 2021 – Present California
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral Researcher
Caltech
Oct 2019 – Sep 2021 California
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral Researcher
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Nov 2018 – Oct 2019 California
 
 
 
 
 
UAV GCS Operator / Support Crew
Self-Employed
Jan 2017 – Oct 2018 Sydney
 
 
 
 
 
Researcher / GCS Operator / Go-To Guy
The University of Sydney
Jan 2013 – Oct 2018 Sydney
 
 
 
 
 
PhD Student
The University of Sydney
Jan 2011 – Dec 2017 Sydney