DS685 — AI for Robotics (Spring 2026)

Course submissions.

Assignment 1 — Getting Started with ROS

• Folder: assignment-1/
• Contents: required screenshots (ROS CLI, Gazebo, RViz2)

Assignment 2 — ROS2 + Zenoh + PostgreSQL

• Folder: assignment-2/
• Contents: detector, ingest worker, SQL schema, world assets, reproducibility notes

Assignment 3 — Semantic Graph and Re-Localization

• Folder: assignment-3/
• Contents: pgvector + AGE workflow, graph builder, relocalizer, demo report

Midterm TCC

• Folder: midterm-tcc/
• Contents: TCC report, figures, run summary, local runner script

Assignment 4 — Visual SLAM

• Folder: assignment-4/
• Contents: first-principles KITTI VSLAM starter, StellaVSLAM notes, Nav2 integration scaffold

Final Project — 3D Gaussian Splatting for Robot Navigation

• Folder: final-project/
• Contents: Gaussian-splat capture pipeline scaffold, transform tests, semantic-query interface, navigation-agent scaffold