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Negasa Yahi - Graduate Research Assistant in Greensboro, NC

Negasa Yahi

Mid-level Robotics & Controls Engineer specializing in autonomous vehicle motion planning

North Carolina A&T State UniversityNorth Carolina A&T State UniversityGreensboro, NC9 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Robotics software engineer focused on UAV multi-agent collision avoidance, combining Behavior Trees with MPC and validating in a ROS-based simulator via PX4 hardware-in-the-loop. Has hands-on experience debugging real-time estimation/control issues (EKF noise/arming failures), building distributed ROS service architectures, and smoothing MPC trajectories to meet kinematic and FAA right-of-way constraints.

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Key Strengths

  • Built and validated UAV collision-avoidance motion planning integrating Behavior Trees with MPC
  • End-to-end ROS-based simulator development with industry collaboration
  • Hardware-in-the-loop testing with PX4 + Gazebo; resolved EKF/noisy-sensor arming/takeoff issues via controller delay adjustment
  • Designed distributed multi-agent architecture using ROS services for conflict detection and trajectory exchange
  • Mitigated ROS service latency/bottlenecks using safe multi-threading
  • Improved MPC trajectory feasibility by adding kinematic constraints and post-generation smoothing while enforcing FAA right-of-way rules
  • Used Docker to bridge ROS version/library compatibility (Kinetic to Noetic) and GitHub CI/CD for builds

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Experience

Graduate Research AssistantNorth Carolina A&T State University · Sep 2021 – Present
LecturerJimma University · Sep 2016 – Aug 2021
LecturerAdama Science and Technology University · Nov 2019 – Aug 2021

Education

North Carolina A&T State Universitydoctorate, Electrical Engineering (2025)
Jimma Universitymaster, Control and Instrumentation Engineering (2019)
Jimma Universitybachelor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (2016)

Awards

  • Best Student Paper Award - ICNS Conference (2024)
  • Best Poster Award - NASA Imagine-Aviation (2024)

Skills

C++DockerGitLinuxMATLABPythonA*Adaptive ControlAgent-Based SimulationAutonomous VehiclesBehavior TreesCNNCollision AvoidanceControl SystemsControl and Instrumentation

Languages

English

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