Julia Chae

Spearheaded development of rover drive control software pipeline which includes joystick integration, configuration of I2C protocol for motor drivers, variable speed control and AR tag detection. Languages used were Python, C++ and ROS was utilized to handle communication between topics.

Designed a fully automated robotics system to inform sourdough bakers when their dough is ready to be put into the oven, in collaboration with local Toronto bakers at Forno Cultura and Blackbird Bakeries. The system develops a custom yeast-growth model and while the dough is expanding, the robot uses a 2 axis linear stage, time of flight sensor and temperature sensor to track the dough growth and alerts the bakers when it is ready.

Designed, conceptualized and prototyped an autonomous robot which locates and traverses to a charging port on a car to plug in the charger, utilizing time-of-flight sensor, color sensor, and pi-camera. Developed a modular program in Python and C++, each responsible for sensor or chassis control; utilized embedded programing

Bit’s Adventure is an original interactive RPG for the Original Game Boy which was coded using gbdk package in C. The game can be played on Game Boy emulators such as mGBA.

Investigated how unsupervised representation learning could be utilized in an imitation learning (IL) task such as robot path following. In this project, we successfully trained a multimodal representation from unlabelled path traversal data, fine-tuned on minimal labeled data.