Simultaneously Localization and Mapping (SLAM) Robotics Project

Objective: Senior year group project to design, develop, and program a SLAM robot capable of navigating and mapping an obstacle course, utilizing a range of sensors and other hardware. The robots then competed to navigate the course, with our team gaining the top mark in the class.

Contribution:

• Sensor selection, testing, and mountings 

• Analog-to-digital conversion

• Signal processing

• Design and manufacture of 3-D printed robot hardware

Takeaways:

This project was my introduction to SLAM mapping, fuzzy logic, and using complex control systems to control a real-world system – things I continued to use and develop at grad school, and even implemented in a number of sponsored research projects.