Skip Navigation

People

Brandon Metz

Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 198-235

Pasadena, CA 91109

Phone:

818.393.1005

Fax:

818.354.9973

Member of:

347A - Embedded Robotic Systems
FORMER MEMBER

Brandon Metz

Robotics Electrical Engineer

Biography

I have had a long standing love and fascination for space and science. After obtaining my B.S. in electrical engineering I came to JPL as a summer intern and switched to academic part time when I began to pursue my masters degree in Communication/DSP. Since then I have obtained my masters and am current working full time on the next rover going to Mars as one of the lead investigators on actuator and motion control issues.

Education

I attended Cal Poly Pomona from 2003-2007 and obtained my B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a strong emphasis in DSP/Communication. I have received my masters degree from Cal Poly Pomona in Communication and Microwave Engineering.

Professional Experience

I had worked in industry at a Laser Welding/Systems company before arriving to JPL. I have strong abilities in FPGA programming, analog circuit design, object oriented programming, system level design, vision algorithms, schematic/PCB design, control systems, hardware trouble shooting, and DSP.
Projects Ive worked on have been:
-Remote Science for MSL
-IMCS - Red Team for MSL
-AEGSE for MSL
-Formation Control Testbed
-Optical Pointing Loop
-ANS

Research Interests

End to end embedded systems, error correction encoding/decoding, FPGA implemented compression algorithms, vision applications, electromagnetics, and software defined radio.

Publications

2018
  1. K Edelberg, P Backes, J Biesiadecki, S Brooks, D Helmick, W Kim, T Litwin B Metz, J Reid, A Sirota, W Ubellacker, P Vieira, "Software System for the Mars 2020 Mission Sampling and Caching Testbeds," DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2018.8396572, 01 January 2018.