Pavlov Mini Wheel: A ROS2-Based Quadruped Robot with Vision-Based Ball Tracking

Introducing Pavlov Mini Wheel — an open-source ROS2-based autonomous quadruped robot platform.

Pavlov Mini Wheel is a robotics project focused on developing an autonomous four-legged robot capable of perceiving its environment and interacting with it.

The system combines:

  • ROS2 Humble for robot communication and control
  • Gazebo for simulation and testing
  • Raspberry Pi 4B for high-level processing
  • Arduino Mega for low-level hardware control

The main goal of the project is to create a robot that can detect a target object using computer vision and perform autonomous movement based on visual information.

Throughout the development process, I worked on robot modeling with URDF/Xacro, simulation, hardware integration, and AI-based perception.

I shared the first part of the development journey, including the motivation, system overview, and technologies behind the project, on Medium:

:link: https://medium.com/p/04446441be23

I would love to hear feedback and suggestions from the robotics community. :rocket: