Joule robotics platform with Portland State University
I collaborated with Portland State University professors to design an end-to-end robotics platform, combining sensing, manipulation, transportation, Intel RealSense, and Intel Joule into a single integrated platform capable of running ROS.
Problem
A university program that teaches robotics needs a working vehicle. Drive base, sensors, mounting, power. Joule arrived in a box. Months of mechanical work stood between the module and a robot a course could use.
Solution
I collaborated with Portland State University professors on an end-to-end platform. Sensing, manipulation, and transportation in one system. Intel RealSense and Intel Joule, running ROS. Depth cameras across two decks, compute underneath, and room to bolt on whatever the course needs.
Analysis
A course is committed a year ahead. If the platform breaks mid-semester, it becomes the department's problem. Getting it adopted meant convincing people whose downside was larger than mine.
The lab bench shows what it was for. Block detection running, and failing, in the logs on the wall.
Result
A teaching and research platform a program could run for a semester.
Photos
Block detection, running and failing in the logs on the wall. This is what the platform was for. 
The platform. Depth cameras on two decks, compute underneath, and room to bolt on whatever the course needs.