SCSudeeksha Chagarlamudiinsenseplanact.hashnode.dev·Jun 1 · 2 min readNavMind: Telling a Robot to Clean Your House in Plain EnglishYou type "Clean the kitchen." The robot figures out what you meant, drives there on its own, covers the room like a robot vacuum, and heads back home while narrating what it's doing along the way. No 00
LLukasinmidnightbuilds.hashnode.dev·Apr 22 · 10 min readRoSLAM-1: Turning a $30 old Robot Vacuum into a Serious SLAM Research PlatformPart 1 of N — Why, What, and How It's Built SLAM · ROS2 Jazzy · Raspberry Pi 5 · Linorobot2 · RTAB-Map · LiDAR · RGB-D Most robotics research starts with a purchase order. A TurtleBot3, a Clearpath H00
Ttelosintelos-robotics.hashnode.dev·Apr 16 · 10 min readAMCL: The Localization Algorithm That Survived 20 Years — Particle Filter + KLD-Sampling Deep DiveTL;DR AMCL (Adaptive Monte Carlo Localization) is a probabilistic localization algorithm that estimates a robot's pose on a pre-built 2D map. The key idea: represent the position probability distribution using a particle filter, and dynamically adjus...00
Ttelosintelos-robotics.hashnode.dev·Apr 13 · 7 min readFAST-LIO2: 100Hz LiDAR Odometry Without FeaturesTL;DR FAST-LIO2 is a high-speed, high-accuracy LiDAR-IMU Odometry system developed by HKU MARS Lab. Two core innovations: (1) Direct raw point cloud registration to the map — no feature extraction, (2) Incremental k-d Tree (ikd-Tree) for O(log n) rea...00
LLukasinmidnightbuilds.hashnode.dev·Mar 31 · 5 min readWhy You Should Build an AMRThis is for anyone who wants to get serious about robotics — not just build demo projects that end up on a shelf, but have something that actually runs in your home, operates daily, grows with you ove00
LLukasinmidnightbuilds.hashnode.dev·Mar 31 · 10 min readMy SLAM Roadmap: What I'm Actually Learning to Build a Research RobotSLAM · ROS2 · Mobile Robotics · Learning Path · Research I'm not a SLAM engineer. Not yet. But I'm building a robot that needs to map an apartment, localize itself inside that map, and navigate towar00
