Software Engineering Intern
Vigiles Robotics Inc.
Semantic Mapping for an LLM-Driven Inspection Robot
Jul 2026
Milpitas, CA
- Worked on an offline semantic mapping pipeline that turns robot LiDAR/RGB-D captures into a map labeled with rooms and objects (SLAM → room segmentation → object detection → map export)
- Implemented a watershed-based room-segmentation module in Python (distance transform, flood fill, doorway detection) to replace an unavailable proprietary dependency, with unit tests
- Integrated vision-language-model object detection to identify objects in camera frames and attach their 3D locations to the map