I'm a Year 4 Mechanical Engineering undergrad (BEng, Honours) at NTU, building the perception side of autonomous vehicles with Archimedes Autonomous Vehicles (AAV). My focus is turning what a camera sees into where a boat goes, from detection and visual servoing in ROS 2 to the web tools the team runs on.
Paperdragone@vrx-sim:~$ ./launch_profile --mode perception-autonomy
STATUS : mechanical engineering undergrad (BEng Honours), NTU
CURRENT : image-guided planning and control of a WAM-V USV in VRX
SPECIALTY : computer vision and perception - detection, visual servoing, camera-to-control
OPERATING MODE: test in sim, then close the loop from a single camera| Console | Signal |
|---|---|
| Perception | OpenCV, YOLO (Ultralytics), single-camera gate detection |
| Autonomy | ROS 2, yaw/surge control, visual servoing |
| Simulation | VRX, Gazebo, WAM-V USV |
| Web and ops | Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, Supabase, Vercel |
| Competitions | RobotX, SUAS |
Most team work lives in Archimedes' private repositories, so the public graph is only part of the story.
| Project | Stack | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Image-Guided Planning and Control of a USV | ROS 2, OpenCV, YOLO, VRX / Gazebo | Steers a WAM-V unmanned surface vehicle through buoy gates from a single camera (YOLO to gate measurement to yaw/surge control) |
| AAV Website | Next.js, React, TypeScript, Supabase, Vercel | The team's public website (aav-website-2026) |
| AAV Ops Portal | Next.js, React, Tailwind | The team's internal operations dashboard |
| Track | Focus | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Perception | Clean detections before clever control | You can't steer on noisy measurements |
| Autonomy | Simple ROS 2 interfaces, camera to control | Fewer moving parts survive integration |
| Simulation | VRX parity before the water | Catch it in sim, not on race day |
| Web and ops | Ship the team's tools and keep them current | The team runs on what actually works |
Open an issue and give me a prompt.
| Button | Opens |
|---|---|
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A vision / autonomy thread |
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A VRX / Gazebo simulation thread |
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The AAV website / ops tooling |