--- 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._