Apr 22 · 10 min read · Part 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 H
Join discussionApr 16 · 10 min read · TL;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...
Join discussionApr 13 · 7 min read · TL;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...
Join discussionMar 31 · 10 min read · SLAM · 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 towar
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