2025-07-23 –, Cathedral Room 324 - Else Room
At JuliaCon 2019, Tucker McClure gave a talk "A New Breed of Vehicle Simulation" to show how Julia-based simulation was being used at Zipline to develop autonomous aircraft that deliver life-saving medical supplies to remote areas. After 1.5 million deliveries and 100 million miles flown across seven countries, we're retiring our Julia simulation and rewriting it in Rust. Join for a discussion on how we could have avoided the issues that ultimately led to our decision to move away from Julia.
This talk will cover how Zipline used Julia for aircraft development and flight software testing, the positives of using Julia for aircraft simulation and engineering development, the pain points of using Julia in a large organization, and how the value proposition of Julia is shifting with changes in the industry.
Human being/Controls and Dynamics Engineer at Zipline.