Selin Yavuz, student of the IFRoS 2023–2025 cohort, shares her experience developing a series of hands-on robotics projects that concluded the first academic year of the IFRoS Master. Working as part of a team, she applied concepts in localization, perception, planning, and manipulation to build and integrate an autonomous mobile robot with object detection and interaction capabilities.
Curious about what first-year IFRoS students get to build? Read her full experience below.
“I am excited to share with you the Hands-on Projects we have developed in Localization, Perception, Planning, and Intervention, that conclude our first year in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master: Intelligent Field Robotic Systems IFRoS Master.
Together with my project partners Tanakrit Lertcompeesin and Zewdie Habtie Sisay, and with the immense support of our professors, we have successfully developed in just 6 weeks:
- Pose-based SLAM with NDT Matching for Hands-on Localization
- Camera Pose Estimation Using Feature Matching for Hands-on Perception
- Frontier-Based Exploration with RRT* and DWA for Hands-on Planning
- Kinematic Control System for Mobile Manipulator Systems for Hands-on Intervention
After completing these projects, we have integrated these projects into an autonomous exploration robot with ArUco detection and object manipulation capabilities. Additionally, we showcased the integration work on the turtlebot in the IFROS Day.
It was incredible to see everything we learned this year in these projects. We are very fortunate to have experienced this year at Universitat de Girona. I want to thank Tanakrit and Zewdie for being the best team and sharing this journey, and of course, our program coordinators, professors, and manager—Narcis Palomeras, Nuno Gracias, Pere Ridao, Patryk Cieślak, Josep Forest, and Imma Güell, PhD—whose support made all this possible.”
Want to see what they built? Their final project is showcased in this video: Watch on YouTube