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Position:
Algorithms Engineer
     
Education:   2018 - Ing. (=M.Sc.) Cybernetics and Robotics (with Honors) , FEE, CTU in Prague, thesis supervised by Dr. M. Saska
    2011 - B.Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
     
Past projects:   Beresheet, the first private mission to the Moon: Simulation team- Sensor modelling and development of a visualization in OpenGL for simulations and real-time mission control; (Hyde Park Civilization Interview)
     
Interest:   Aerospace, Mobile robotics, SLAM, motion planning, GNC, State estimation, Model predictive control
     
ORCID:   ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-3889-2396
Publications:  
  1. D A Saikin, T Baca, M Gurtner and M Saska. Wildfire Fighting by Unmanned Aerial System Exploiting Its Time-Varying Mass. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5(2):2674-2681, 2020. PDF, DOI BibTeX

    @article{saikin2020wildfire,
    	author = "Saikin, D. A. and Baca, T. and Gurtner, M. and Saska, M.",
    	doi = "10.1109/LRA.2020.2972827",
    	journal = "IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters",
    	number = 2,
    	pages = "2674-2681",
    	title = "{Wildfire Fighting by Unmanned Aerial System Exploiting Its Time-Varying Mass}",
    	type = "article",
    	volume = 5,
    	year = 2020,
    	pdf = "data/papers/saikin_diego.pdf"
    }