MIT Robust Robotics Group Internship Presentation

Research presentation summarizing work completed through the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) program within the Robust Robotics Group. The project investigated whether autonomous navigation could be achieved using only a single low-cost HC-SR04 ultrasonic range sensor combined with feedback control.

A custom wheeled robotic platform was developed using Arduino-based control hardware and evaluated against human teleoperation on a structured obstacle course. Experimental results demonstrated navigation performance within approximately 7% of human-operated performance metrics despite the robot relying on a drastically reduced sensing suite. The project highlights the potential for low-cost autonomous systems operating with minimal sensing requirements.