Gavin Kenny's Portfolio

Welcome to my portfolio. Please see my projects below.

University Projects

FYP Collaborative Dual Arm System - ROS

Github - Collaborative Dual Arm System

Implementation of collaborative/cooperative tasks using a dual arm setup in ROS/MoveIt with two OpenManipulator-X robotic arms and D435i RealSense cameras. Development in C++, Python, Linux and ROS/MoveIt for motion planning and perception.

UR5 Pick & Place ROS1

Github - UR5-Pick-And-Place-ROS1

This project was an assignment in one of my robotics modules.

EMG Controled Robotic Hand

I completed this project during my Internship at Micochip Technology.

Raspberry Pi - Computer Vision - Object Recognition

Github - Raspberry Pi Object Recognition

This was my second year project, the task was to use a Raspberry Pi, a Neural Comute Stick 2, a webcam and computer vision to detect and recognise recyclable objects. While the project was successful at recognition, the project used YOLOv3 and COCO dataset which wasn't great with deformed objects. A model which was solely trained on trash and recyclable objects would have worked a lot better, but due to time (and knowledge) this was not possible at the time. However this project demonstrated the use of a hardware accelerator to boost the video capabilities of the Raspberry Pi to perform computer vision

A Ball on a Beam Robotic System

Github - Ball & Beam Control System

This was my first year project and received an A. A working physical prototype was contructed to balanace a ball on a beam. This demostrated the control theory such as PID controllers in a real application. This was a "group" project, but I ended up doing mostly everything.

Hobbie Projects

Differential wheeled robot (MicroMouse)

Github - MicroMouse

This is something I worked on over a summer. I applied my skills in embedded systems and electronics to create it.

Robovie Nano

I bought this small guy to learn more about humanoid/bipedal robots.

Thermal Camera with AMG8833 sensor

Using an AMG8833 sensor by panasonic, and a Raspberry Pi to make a thermal camera

Thermal Camera