Omnidirectional Object Capture

Summary

This project served as my first real introduction to interfacing with hardware. My research partner and I devloped a mecanum wheeled vehicle that was capable of capturing a free falling object using real-time object detection. Using a Jetson Nano with only 4GB of RAM, we prioritized computational efficiency. I authored a PID control algorithm in Python to enable the object capture capabilites. Our final report can be found here. I encourage otherx to start with projects like this as they can snowball into much bigger passions and projects.