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Field notes
Writing about robots, research life, and the things I learn the hard way. (These are starter entries — replace the titles, dates, and links with your real posts. Each card can point to a Medium post, a GitHub README, or a local blog/post-name.html page.)
Posts
Sim2real is mostly about humility
What transferring a handover policy from PyBullet to a real Stretch robot taught me about the gap between simulation and the physical world — and the tricks that actually closed it.
read post →From drones to caregiving robots
How an aerospace undergrad who lived in GPS-denied corridors at IIT Kanpur ended up teaching mobile manipulators to assist people at Georgia Tech — and what carried over.
read post →A field guide to indoor localization
UWB beacons, ArUco markers, visual-inertial odometry, range-based SLAM — a plain-language tour of how robots figure out where they are when GPS can't help.
read post →What drone photography taught me about robotics research
Flying for fun makes you a better roboticist: wind models become intuition, battery margins become risk budgets, and a good shot is just a well-planned trajectory.
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