Vibhu Tripathi

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Articles, learnings, and thoughts.

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Zero collisions can mean the system refused to fly

What dense-uav-ops is teaching me about measuring admission, service, sensing, and timing alongside collision avoidance.

#drones#utm#simulation#safety#dense-uav-ops
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Finding viable AI data-center sites means measuring uncertainty

How datacenter-geo searches across 59 siting factors while keeping evidence quality and uncertainty visible.

#ai-infrastructure#data-centers#ai-agents#geospatial#energy#site-selection
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Coding agents move the bottleneck from code to the pipeline

What supervising coding agents changed in my work, and the pipeline measures I now care about at Codefac.

#ai-agents#software-delivery#agent-pipelines#engineering#codefac
ArticleProject 2021–2022

What 5G solved—and did not solve—for our drone trial

A retrospective note on Vizzbee's 5G UTM trial with Vi, the communication work it simplified, and the BVLOS work it did not replace.

#drones#5g#utm#bvlos#regulation
ArticleProject 2019

Why we moved Vizzbee's airspace control plane toward federation

A retrospective note on the governance and interoperability questions behind Vizzbee's federated UTM architecture.

#drones#utm#architecture#distributed-systems#vizzbee
ArticleProject 2021

What broke when we took multi-agent deconfliction out of simulation

A retrospective note on a 2021 tactical deconfliction project and the environment-model gaps that appeared during flight testing.

#drones#rl#marl#utm#sim-to-real
ArticleProject 2018–2019

Why our drone stayed below 0.5 m/s

A corrected retrospective note on end-to-end latency in a T265, D435, Jetson Nano, ROS, and PX4 autonomy stack.

#drones#slam#visual-inertial-odometry#ros#jetson-nano#ekf