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Axel Wickman

Robotics and Applied AI engineer with 5+ years of experience building real-world robotics, perception, and AI systems. I help companies turn ideas and requirements into working products, from prototype to deployment.

Python, C++, Rust. ROS2, PyTorch, computer vision, Linux, Docker, full-stack.

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PragmaPlanner

Automatic event planning using multithreaded CP-SAT in the browser, built for fast edits, coherent schedules, and real-world constraints.
3D estimation for saffron picking

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Client Work - Robotics

3D estimation for saffron picking

3D estimation work for a saffron-picking robot focused on perception, localization, and picking in a real agricultural setting.

Automated golf ball pickers

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Client Work - Robotics

Automated golf ball pickers

Client work on an existing stack and live fleet. Contributed to navigation, error detection, fleet management, and the self-update system. Focused on reliability and operations for robots running in the field.

PragmaPlanner: automatic even-scheduling in browser

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PragmaPlanner: automatic even-scheduling in browser

Constraint-based event scheduling running directly in the browser, with multithreaded CP-SAT for fast, editable plans.

Exploring feasibility of reinforcement learning flight route planning

Client Work / Thesis - AI

Exploring feasibility of reinforcement learning flight route planning

2021 bachelor thesis connected to the Cognitive Science bachelor’s program, comparing A*, local and global reinforcement learning planners inside a multithreaded C++ flight simulation with custom aerodynamics, PyTorch and LibTorch models, OpenGL visualization, and autopilot-based feasibility constraints.

Web Demo

Projects - Biology

NeuroCorrelation: Plasticity in a Recurrent Spiking Network Simulation

Interactive web neural simulation demo and article on spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP), spiking neural networks, synaptic plasticity, and recurrent biological simulation.

RoboCup 2019 and a service robotics stack

LiU - Robotics

RoboCup 2019 and a service robotics stack

DenseSense, people detection, and a multi-part service robotics stack brought to RoboCup 2019 in Sydney.

Blender work

Projects - 3D

Blender work

A personal note on Blender, procedural light, and the software that shaped both my visual thinking and my path into programming.

CyanoAlert

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Client Work - Frontend

CyanoAlert

React Native work for iOS and Android. Query satellite-collected algal bloom concentration in bodies of water.

Robot choreography for Swedish television

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Client Work - Robotics

Robot choreography for Swedish television

Short-notice choreography work for a NAO robot dance segment on Svenska Nyheter, animated using Choregraphe.