Robotics Portfolio Template

Robotics portfolio template

A lab notebook for your robotics work. Pair project diagrams with your objective, contribution and outcome in a clear case-study layout.

Choose projects that explain a system: its objective, hardware and software interfaces, your contribution and what the experiment showed. Pair each project with a diagram or photograph you can share. State test conditions and limitations alongside any result.

Explore the fictional example below, then replace it with your own work. Manual drafts and previews are free; see AI and publishing prices.

01 / Case studies

Selected work

Case 01Final-year team project

Indoor navigation rover

My role Navigation & integration

A student rover project exploring localisation and repeatable navigation in a changing indoor route.

ROS 2
Python
Lidar
Wheel encoders

Context: The team could drive the rover manually, but it lost track of its position when a wheel slipped or the corridor layout changed.
Objective: Connect localisation, route planning and motion control, then make the failure cases understandable to the next team.
My contribution: I integrated the encoder and lidar inputs, checked coordinate frames, and wrote a repeatable route procedure. Recorded runs helped separate localisation errors from controller tuning problems.
Outcome: The project handover included route recordings, configuration notes and examples of recovery failures. Reflective surfaces remained an open issue for the next iteration.

Case 02Design module

Adaptive gripper study

My role Mechanism design

A compact gripper prototype built to compare finger geometry and contact behaviour on objects of different shapes.

CAD
3D printing
Arduino
Force sensing

Context: Rigid fingertips made contact unevenly and pushed lightweight objects out of the grip.
Objective: Explore a compliant finger design within the existing actuator and manufacturing constraints.
My contribution: I modelled interchangeable fingers, printed prototypes and photographed their contact patterns. A simple force-sensor fixture helped compare iterations under the same conditions.
Outcome: The final report explained which shapes the design could hold and where the fingers still twisted. It included the CAD revisions and the limits of the test fixture.

Case 03Personal project

Sensor-to-motion integration

My role Firmware & system documentation

An integration exercise tracing a distance measurement from the sensor driver to a motor command, with a visible stop condition.

C++
Microcontroller
Serial logging

Context: A working sensor driver and motor driver did not yet form a predictable complete system.
Objective: Define the data path and document how the controller handles stale or missing readings.
My contribution: I separated sampling from motor updates, added timestamped logs, and exercised the stop condition with disconnected and delayed sensor inputs.
Outcome: The write-up links each state transition to an observed log sequence. Further work would test the same behaviour under processor load.

Maya Patel

Selected work

Indoor navigation rover

Adaptive gripper study

Sensor-to-motion integration

Behind the work

Tools & capabilities

Where I have worked

Student robotics team member

Learning & credentials

BEng Robotics Engineering