Hostile-zone rescue robot with SLAM
Mobile robot for detection of a closed environment using SLAM
A senior-year robotics project: a mobile platform that builds a map of an unknown, closed environment and locates itself within it — Simultaneous Localization And Mapping — for use in hostile-zone rescue scenarios where prior maps don’t exist.
Work spanned the full stack: hardware adaptation, disk imaging, kinematic modeling, and ROS programming. The result was a robot that could be dropped into a sealed environment and produce a usable occupancy map within minutes.