Sujit Shivaprasad — aerospace engineer
I'm a Senior Systems Engineer in GNC at Amazon Prime Air, working on drone autonomy. Before that I spent nearly five years at Blue Origin working on rocket guidance, navigation, and control (GNC), and earlier worked on environmental control systems at Boeing and engine control systems at Rolls-Royce.
interests
- Guidance, navigation & control (GNC) — the core of my work: drone autonomy today; rocket GNC at Blue Origin before that
- Guidance — planning trajectories and deciding where a vehicle should go
- Navigation — estimating where a vehicle is and how it's moving, from noisy sensors
- Control — commanding actuators to track the plan despite disturbances
- Modeling & simulation — modeling physical systems to understand and verify how they behave
- Systems & software engineering — making complex subsystems work together, and writing software to build, test, and analyze them
outside work
Originally from Oregon, I've lived in India, Texas, Indiana, and Washington. When I'm not working you'll usually find me:
contact
Interested in aerospace, GNC, or just want to say hi?