Sealbot 2.0: BlueROV Mod for Flow Detection and Feedback Control
Sealbot 2.0 is a custom embedded platform for the BlueROV to support data collection as a part of the Hartmann Laboratory: Sensory and Neural Systems Engineering (SeNSE) Lab (SeNSE_...
Nolan Knight
Current MSR Student at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL
Recent Projects
Rudy: Quadruped From Scratch
Meet Rudy! A quadruped which I have designed and built from scatch! Rudy was designed to operate using ROS 2, running on an Ubuntu Raspberry Pi and powered by Dynamixel XC430 motors...
SLAM: Navigation Stack From Scratch
Designed for the Turtlebot3, this project implements a full-stack SLAM architecture using an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). The system integrates sensing, state estimation, and mappin...
Vision-Based Sorting with the FER Panda Robot
As part of a team, I developed a modular motion planning and manipulation system for the FER Panda robotic arm to autonomously pick up and sort colored objects (“Turtles”) in both si...
Computer Vision Assisted Object Localization & Grasping
In this project, I developed a vision-guided robotic arm capable of detecting and retrieving a pen from a human hand. The system uses an Interbotix robotic arm controlled via a ROS 2...
Lagrangian Dynamics Simulations
During my Master’s in Robotics at Northwestern University, I completed a Machine Dynamics course focused on Lagrangian dynamics and physics-based simulation. This page showcases a co...