Jeremy H. Brown, Founder / President / Engineer

Jeremy has been working with autonomous systems since 1995 when a contracting gig for a friend kicked off his long-term interest in robotics. His experience includes large-scale software architecture and development; sensor and systems integration; and extensive fieldwork and troubleshooting for ground, aerial, and marine robots.

After a couple of years in the enterprise software world, Jeremy wanted to return to robotics. He founded Rep Invariant Systems, Inc. to solve many of the software engineering problems specific to the field.

Before his enterprise software adventure, Jeremy was the lead software engineer at Bluefin Robotics for several projects, including the Sealion project. The Sealion autonomous underwater vehicles were the first Bluefin vehicles deployed with a completely new software stack, designed and implemented by the Bluefin software team over the preceding three years. While Jeremy worked on all parts of the software stack, he was particularly responsible for the design and implementation of the communications protocol that managed the unreliable, low-bandwidth radio connection between vehicle and operator control unit in the field.

Prior to working at Bluefin, Jeremy contributed to a number of robotics projects as a contractor for Newton Research Labs. These projects included everything from working with customers to software development, along with electrical and mechanical integration.

Jeremy received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2002. He has M.Eng. and B.S. degrees in EECS also from MIT. As a student, he was a member of the MIT Aerial Robotics Club for its 1997 second place in the International Autonomous Flying Vehicle competition. He was also a member of the MIT Rocket Team for its dramatic series of engine tests in 2000.

Josh Pieper, Founder / CTO / Engineer

Josh has been working with robots since 1998. His experience includes large-scale software design and development; electrical and mechanical design and development; sensor and microcontroller selection and integration; and extensive fieldwork and troubleshooting for ground and marine robots.

Prior to co-founding Rep Invariant Systems, Inc., Josh was the lead software engineer at Bluefin Robotics for several projects, including the AOFNC project, which demonstrated coordinated multi-vehicle autonomy in the underwater environment. While at Bluefin, Josh developed a completely new autonomy module, which became the standard on Bluefin vehicles. He also developed a novel navigation algorithm for low-cost underwater systems, and was lead for Bluefin's next generation graphical mission planning and post-mission analysis toolset.

Josh received his M.S. in Computer Engineering from CMU in 2004. He has a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla. At CMU, Josh's entry in the 2004 MOBOT robot-race took first place, improving on the previous track record by nearly 20%.