Added turtlebot racing post

content/posts/rle/index.md

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+---
+title: "Reinforcement Learning Exploration"
+date: 2025-06-12T09:00:00+00:00
+description: RL for mobile robot navigation
+hero: images/jackal.png
+author:
+  image: /images/sharwin_portrait.jpg
+menu:
+  sidebar:
+    name: RL Exploration
+    identifier: rle
+    weight: 5
+tags:  ["Python", "Reinforcement Learning", "Mujoco", "PPO", "LiDAR"]
+repo: https://github.com/HarrisonBounds/RLE
+---
+The Jackal is a simple differential drive robot with an impressive payload capacity and can be equipped with various sensors. In this project, we simulated the jackal with a 3D LiDaR (Velodyne VLP16) in Mujoco and setup a PPO pipeline to teach the mobile robot to navigate towards a goal and avoid obstacles.
+
+_This post is under construction._

content/posts/turtlebot-racing/index.md

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+---
+title: "Turtlebot Racing with VIO"
+date: 2025-06-15T09:00:00+00:00
+description: Visual interface for teleoperating a turtlebot around a race-track generated by the user using VIO
+hero: images/turtlebot_racing.png
+author:
+  image: /images/sharwin_portrait.jpg
+menu:
+  sidebar:
+    name: Turtlebot Racing
+    identifier: turtlebot-racing
+    weight: 5
+tags:   ["Computer Vision", "C++", "OpenCV", "Zed 2i Camera", "VIO"]
+repo: https://github.com/Sharwin24/Visual-Pose-Graph-Estimation
+---
+
+_This post is under construction_

data/en/sections/projects.yaml

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   summary: Teaching the Unitree Go2 robot dog various locomotion tasks using reinforcement learning on the Genesis simulator.
   tags: ["Python", "Reinforcement Learning", "PPO", "Genesis"]
 
+- name: RL Mobile Robot Navigation
+  image: /images/jackal_lidar.png
+  role: "CS496: Machine Learning and Sensing Final Project"
+  timeline: "April 2025 - June 2025"
+  url: "/posts/rle/"
+  repo: https://github.com/HarrisonBounds/RLE
+  summary: Teaching a Jackal mobile robot with a LiDaR to navigate using reinforcement learning with Mujoco.
+  tags: ["Python", "Reinforcement Learning", "Mujoco", "PPO", "LiDaR"]
+
 - name: Chess Robot
   role: "NEU Robotics Club Project"
   image: /images/chess_robot.gif
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   summary: A gantry robot equipped with a camera to autonomously play and teach chess to human opponents.
   tags: ["Python", "OpenCV", "Arduino", "Stepper Motors"]
 
+- name: Racing Simulator with VIO
+  image: /images/turtlebot_video.png
+  role: "MSAI495: Computer Vision Final Project"
+  timeline: "April 2025 - June 2025"
+  url: "/posts/turtlebot-racing/"
+  repo: https://github.com/Sharwin24/Visual-Pose-Graph-Estimation
+  summary: Utilized a turtlebot3 with a Zed 2i camera to create a racing simulator that uses Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) for localization and mapping.
+  tags: ["Computer Vision", "C++", "OpenCV", "Zed 2i Camera", "Visual-Inertial Odometry"]
+
 - name: Robot Arm Educational Kit
   image: /images/kavar_background.jpg
   role: "Personal Project"