Ignat Georgiev

Automated Valet Parking at the IAA 2021

Bringing AV tech to production

Posted on October 1, 2021

Soon after graduating in the summer of 2020, I had the pleasure of joining the startup Kopernikus Automotive to work on automated valet parking (AVP). The idea is to enable a car to fully park itself with minimal hardware on board, instead of using external infrastructure to support it. In... [Read More]

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My first paper

I got my first research paper accepted into an internal conference!

Posted on September 20, 2020

As a byproduct of my Master’s thesis I have had my first paper accepted into the Conference of Robot Learning 2020. The paper is titled Iterative Semi-parametric Dynamics Model Learning For Autonomous Racing which is quite self-explanatory. You can read it on arxiv. It was a big team-effort and I... [Read More]

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Lessons from Formula Student

Formula Student is not that only about building cars but also about building teams

Posted on August 13, 2020

Formula Student is the world’s largest competition, where students develop and build racecars. For most, it is an exciting and cutting-edge project where students can escape boring lectures, do something cool, and get practical experience. For me, it’s also a bit more - I believe Formula Student shaped me into... [Read More]

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Formula Student

My passion throughout university - I founded and led a student team to develop an autonomous racecar

Posted on June 19, 2020

For the majority of my time at University, I was with Edinburgh University Formula Student (EUFS), which is a student project competing in the prestigious Formula Student competition. I have established the autonomous racecar student project within the team, aiming to compete in the brand new competition class - Formula... [Read More]

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Sample Collection Robot

For a course in university, I developed the software for a sample collection robot based on a Turtlebot3 robot with a manipulator.

Posted on June 18, 2020

For a course in university, I developed the software for a sample collection robot based on Turtlebot3 tasked with navigating autonomously around a known environment, interacting with objects and collecting rock samples with a robotic arm. More precisely, the robot was tasked to: [Read More]