CédricHollande

Portfolio, 2026

Cédric Hollande

Cédric Hollande

Master’s student in Robotics at Penn, currently building rover telemetry and autonomy as a software intern at NASA Goddard. I work across mechanical design, controls and perception, and look for the quietest line through a hard problem.

  • MS Robotics, Penn
  • NASA GSFC
  • GRASP Lab
  • F1Tenth
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Featured work

Robotics, controls, perception.

A selection of the projects I’m proud of: autonomous race cars, off-road robots, manipulators and quadrotors built across research, coursework and competition.

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Robotics Research, GRASP ModLab

Robotics Research, GRASP ModLab

MPC, simulation and control for COMPA off-road robot

Controls & Optimization

Controls & Optimization

MPC + RRT* for a forest-fire quadrotor

LiBot, SICK $10K Challenge

LiBot, SICK $10K Challenge

Autonomous library service robot, ROS 2

F1Tenth Autonomous Racing

F1Tenth Autonomous Racing

Pure pursuit, RRT*, MPPI on a Jetson Orin race car

SWE Intern @ NASA GSFC

SWE Intern @ NASA GSFC

ROS 2 to cFS bridge for a Mars Rover mockup

Robotic Arms, Controls & Planning

Robotic Arms, Controls & Planning

Kinematics, dynamics and motion planning for a 7-DOF arm

Additional projects

State estimation, vision, mechatronics.

Coursework and side projects that round out the stack: SLAM, ROS 2, computer vision, quadrotors and full-stack mechatronic systems.

State Estimation and SLAM

State Estimation and SLAM

Hands-on work on the probabilistic robotics stack: filtering, SLAM, learning-based perception, and the plots…

Advanced ROS 2

Advanced ROS 2

Full ROS 2 bring-up workflows, from URDF and simulation through autonomous navigation, motion planning and lo…

Geometric Computer Vision

Geometric Computer Vision

End-to-end perception pipelines in Python and PyTorch, from classical geometry to transformer-based matchers.…

Quadrotor Senior Capstone Project

Quadrotor Senior Capstone Project

eVTOL firefighting drone for rural response, built with a multidisciplinary team across mechanical, electrica…

Machine Design & Manufacturing

Machine Design & Manufacturing

Hands-on precision machining: I designed, manufactured and assembled a fully working tabletop Stirling heat e…

Full-Stack Mechatronic Systems

Full-Stack Mechatronic Systems

Graduate mechatronics arc (**MEAM 5100** at Penn), ending in a semi-autonomous WiFi-controlled car that detec…

Beyond robotics

The rest of the picture.

Beyond the lab

Beyond the lab

Philanthropy chair, NGO researcher, portfolio analyst. The work outside engineering.

Skills & interests

Skills & interests

Music production, scuba diving, calisthenics. The hobbies that keep me sharp.

Let’s talk

Looking for robotics teams hiring new graduates in 2026.

If you’re building something hard at the intersection of mechanical design, controls and software, I’d love to hear about it.

cedrich@upenn.eduResume & transcript