Luca Autunno

Engineer @ Caterra

About

I am a mechanical engineering student at ETH Zürich with a passion for robotics and a strong interest in vertical farming. My goal is to apply my knowledge and skills to create new solutions beneficial to both people and environment.

Country

City

Switzerland

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Machine Learning, LaTeX, Composite Structures, Prototyping, Technical Drawing, Teaching, Camera Calibration, OpenCV, Computer Vision, Robotics, Team Leadership, Team Management, Matlab, C++, Siemens NX, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Programming, Python (Programming Language), Microsoft Office, Linux

Experience

Engineer

Caterra

2025-1 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Zurich, Switzerland

Founder and project head

greenioty

2021-4 - 2024-12 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Switzerland

• Founded Greenioty to promote open source urban farming and inspire people to produce and consume better food by creating replicable and adaptable solutions • Designed and installed 6 different hydroponic systems in various places in Fribourg and Zurich, Switzerland • Led a multi-disciplinary team of up to 7 members • Presented and facilitated 10+ workshops in front of diverse audiences • Supplied 3 restaurants with fresh herbs and microgreens

Research Assistant

Crop Science ETH

2024-2 - 2024-6 · 5 mos

Zurich, Switzerland

• Created a Python library for camera calibration and geo-referencing using data of a 13-camera sensor head mounted on Spidercam system for computer vision based crop phenotyping • Developed camera calibration tools based on OpenCV • Developed sensor and camera pose estimation tools using GNSS and IMU data • Developed image-to-world and world-to-image geo-referencing tools

GrowLab Manager

Foodstack Community

2020-9 - 2021-3 · 7 mos

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

• Maintained and improved 4 automated aeroponic systems • Designed an automated hydroponic system • Increased herbs and microgreens production by a factor of 12 • Conducted weekly workshops for a team of 6+ people

Teaching Assistant, CAD and technical drawing

ETH Zürich

2019 - 2021 · 2 yrs

Zürich, Switzerland

• Held technical drawing and CAD courses for first-year bachelor’s students

Inverter box and cooling designer

AMZ Racing

2018-9 - 2019-8 · 1 yr

Zürich, Switzerland

• Designed and manufactured the composite housing and cooling system of the inverter for a fully electric racing car competing in Formula Student

Workshop Internship

Comet

2018-1 - 2018-2 · 2 mos

Flamatt, Switzerland

• Five-week internship to gain practical experience and get an insight into industrial production.

Education

ETH Zürich

Robotics, Control and System

2021-9 - 2023-10 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Master Thesis: "Establishment of calibration and geo-referencing procedures for longitudinal image time series captured with a field phenotyping platform" Semester project: "Network and Demand Analysis for Autonomy-Enabling Infrastructure"