Joe Dinius, Ph.D.

Roboticist, Software Engineer, Applied Mathematician, ... A Man of Many Interests

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My name is Joe Dinius. I have spent the last 15+ years working as an autonomous systems engineer in the aerospace, automotive, and robotics industries; most of this time spent in research and development. While I cannot discuss what I have worked on professionally over the years, I have worked on a number of interesting side projects whose results and methodologies I share within this personal website.

I have setup this site to be a collection of posts related to ongoing work that I’m engaged in. Once a project reaches a sufficient level of maturity, I will create a writeup that presents the following:

  • A concise problem formulation
  • The approach I have taken to solve the formulated problem
  • Analysis and summary of my proposed solution
  • Some suggestions for future work

Most posts have comments enabled, and I encourage visitors to contribute their opinions. I only ask that the comments be civil and aligned with the post. You will find links to my social media accounts below, as well as a link to email me. Thanks for visiting!

news

Dec 20, 2023 A new project write-up on building a full stack autonomy capability for a fixed wing aerial vehicle from scratch.
Oct 22, 2023 A new post on state estimation for fixed-wing UAVs is available.
Oct 13, 2023 A new post on flight controllers for fixed-wing UAVs is available.
May 1, 2023 A new post describing my efforts to build the F1TENTH autonomous racecar.
Dec 30, 2021 New post: my retrospective on 2021. Happy New Year!!!

latest posts

selected publications

  1. arXiv
    PythonRobotics: a Python code collection of robotics algorithms
    A. Sakai, D. Ingram, J. Dinius, and 3 more authors
    ArXiv e-prints, Aug 2018
  2. USPTO
    Spatiotemporal controller for controlling robot operations
    J.W. Dinius, B.K. Pennington, R.C. Voorhies, and 2 more authors
    Aug 2023
    U.S. Patent