Rocket the Robot
A walking robot built from scratch, trained with reinforcement learning to move and interact with its environment.
Rocket is a custom-built robot developed with USC Makers. The hardware runs on an ATmega microcontroller and a Jetson for compute, with stepper motors, an IMU, and other sensors.
I wrote the I2C communication protocol between the ATmega and Jetson and helped assemble the robot — wiring, electronics, and integration. On the software side, I implemented a custom RL environment in Python using Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, defining state observations, action spaces, and reward functions to prototype autonomous control behaviors in simulation using OpenAI Gymnasium.
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Python · Isaac Sim · Isaac Lab · OpenAI Gymnasium · ATmega · Jetson · I2C · Reinforcement Learning