Autonomous Mini Delivery Robot
A small-scale autonomous rover designed for indoor dispatch that accepts waypoints, calculates collision-free paths, and delivers payloads reliably.
The Problem
What difficult challenge is this experiment tackling?Moving documents, tools, and small parts across large facilities or campuses wastes human hours that could be dedicated to engineering tasks.
The Hypothesis
What do I believe autonomous AI & engineering can accomplish?Combining 2D LiDAR SLAM with dead-reckoning wheel encoders allows a miniature rover to navigate multi-room floorplans autonomously within 5cm positional accuracy.
System Architecture & Workflow
End-to-end design, data pipelines, and component interactionBenchmark & Empirical Metrics
Accuracy • Latency • Cost • Token Usage • Human InterventionAutonomous indoor delivery navigation within 4cm target precision; zero collisions across 50 simulated obstacle obstacle courses.
Security, Privacy & Ethical Guardrails
Risk mitigation, strict boundaries, and sandbox controlsEncrypted internal Wi-Fi communication; fail-safe hardware emergency stop button on robot chassis.
Lessons Learned & Observations
Empirical findings from prototyping and testingSensor fusion combining wheel odometry with LiDAR data eliminates localization drift on slippery flooring.
Next Experiment Iteration
Upcoming modifications, scaling factors, or new hypothesesAdd elevator calling and automatic door opening integration via IoT relays.