Capstone Project — Autonomous Scooter

Autonomous navigation on embedded hardware

Context

Capstone project: built an autonomous scooter platform using onboard perception and ROS-based navigation.

My Contribution

  • Implemented motor control on Arduino
  • Integrated an Intel RealSense D435 for perception
  • Deployed Nav2 on a Raspberry Pi 4
  • Tuned planners and controllers for stable driving

Technical Details

Stack:

  • RealSense depth sensing
  • SLAM + localization
  • Nav2 global + local planning and control
  • Embedded motor driver interface

Main constraints:

  • Limited onboard compute
  • Real-time motor control stability
  • Sensor noise handling

Result

  • Fully autonomous driving in structured environments
  • Real robot deployment (not just simulation)
  • Repository: https://github.com/bxtbold/autonomous-scooter