Kanishke Gamagedara
Sensor Fusion & Navigation at Kearfott
PhD in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Specialized in UAV control and state estimation
I work on sensor fusion and navigation at Kearfott. My work here involves working with state-of-the-art high-performance inertial navigation sensors (monolithic ring laser gyros (MRLGs) + accelerometers), and their sensor fusion algorithms. This includes developing novel fusion algorithms for DO-178c compliant safety-critical embedded GNSS/INS systems (EGI) following model-based design approach using Mathworks Simulink toolboxes, from requirements to test cases.
Before that, I was a Robotics and Control Engineer working on UAVs at American Robotics.
My work there involved mainly with improving the vision-based landing system of the American Robotics UAV system, “Scout”.
I earned my PhD at The George Washington University, and I worked at the Flight Dynamics and Control Lab. My PhD research focused on geometric control and estimation for autonomous UAVs operating in ocean environments, tackling challenges like ship air-wake disturbances, GPS time delays, and vision-based autonomous landing on moving vessels. That involved developing UAV controllers and estimators, and hardware/software systems, that are capable of handling ocean environments. My dissertation was titled Geometric Control and Estimation for Autonomous UAVs in Ocean Environments.
I received my master’s degree at the George Washington University in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, specializing in robotics and control. I completed my bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰.
In my free time, I like to wander around.