Elodin
Modern Software Development Platform for Aerospace Control Systems.
Elodin helps aerospace engineers rapidly design, test, and simulate control systems.
Active Founders
Daniel Driscoll
A technology adventurer experienced in tanks (and armored warfare in general), video games (playing and making them), sales/marketing & CRM/LMS/digital content platforms, real estate investment platforms, SaaS API platforms generally, blockchain technology (both core technology and services), and aerospace technology (specifically rocketry, guidance and control systems)
Tom Gurka
Kicked my career off working for design agencies in San Francisco. Eventually shifted to the startup game - helping build multiple companies from the ground floor. Zuli, Token, M10 and Spatial.
Andrei Khvalko
Programmer with an educational background in photography, interests ranging from game development to anything related to web development, and always curious to explore new specialties and technologies. These years mostly focused on infrastructure.
Akhil Velagapudi
Grew up in New Jersey, and studied electrical + computer engineering at Rutgers. I entered the startup world with M10, where I worked on distributed systems and developed a passion for systems engineering. After M10, I went to Google to work on kubernetes networking, focusing of programmable data planes. I tend to spend my free time either reading fantasy/sci-fi or working on my homelab (which keeps growing).
Sascha Wise
Co-founder of Elodin Systems, developers of simulation tools for aerospace. I'm a software engineer by practice and a physicist by training. I've worked on a wide variety of projects throughout my career from a database for central banks to the flight software for a deep space mission. I'm passionate about building simple, elegant solutions to complex problems. In my spare time, I try and get outdoors as much as possible, which usually means climbing or skiing.
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TL;DR
Elodin helps aerospace engineers rapidly design, test, and simulate control systems. For example, an engineer could use our Python physics toolkit, which automatically optimizes physics computations for GPU computing, to test a new satellite control system in minutes instead of hours.
Hello everyone! We’re Dan, Sascha, Andrei, Tom, and Akhil from Elodin.
Drawing experience from roles at AstroForge, Google, Salesforce, Spatial, and several startups. We discovered that the rapid iteration in cloud software was missing in the field of aerospace, so we were compelled to make the development experience better.
Problem
If you want to build an autonomous drone today, you've only got a few options when it comes to testing.
- You can write your control system, flash it to your flight computer, launch the drone, and watch it crash over and over again.
- You can agonize over setting up a complex simulation using MATLAB, Gazebo, or something homegrown.
Those choices are time-consuming, complex, and costly.
Now, imagine you are building a satellite or an eVTOL aircraft; you have no choice but to set up a complicated simulation.
Solution
How does Elodin prevent this complexity?
We don’t; we just do it for you.
Congrats! You can now simulate your drone's control system easily, but that's not enough. What if a massive windstorm comes around? What if the neighborhood dog decides to take a bite out of one of the propellers? You need to test your control system for any situation you can imagine.
Enter - Monte Carlo Testing
Monte Carlo testing is when you run a simulation multiple times with randomized initial conditions. For example, you could run your simulation with randomized wind speeds.
Elodin makes running Monte Carlo simulations seamless, through our cloud platform. We let you run 100,000s of simultaneous simulations right from the comfort of your laptop.
Our dream is that you run a full Monte Carlo test of your control system every time you push code to GitHub. Historically, this would be very costly and difficult to achieve.
What Elodin is
🐍 Python physics library - A toolkit for building custom physics engines using the GPU, imagine Tensorflow, but for Physics
🎲 Monte Carlo Cloud Runner - A cloud runner that enables you to run your simulation in a scalable Monte Carlo fashion
🌎 3D Viewer - A live-reloading 3d viewer to share, inspect, and analyze your simulations
Try out our Alpha! We have an early alpha sandbox prototype that showcases the real-time editing experience of Elodin but does not include our customizable physics engine or Monte Carlo support.
Our Asks
Reach Out: If you work with drones, satellites, or anything else with a control system, schedule a call with our CEO, Dan, to discover how Elodin can streamline your design and testing processes
Share Your Insights: We value your perspective! If you have any feedback or suggestions, we'd love to hear from you. Your insights are crucial to shaping the future of Elodin.
Connect Us: Even if Elodin is not the perfect fit for your needs, you may know someone who could benefit from our platform. If you have connections in aerospace or related industries, we'd greatly appreciate sharing our website/demo with them or even better a direct introduction to founders@elodin.systems