Towards the end of 2023, in preparation for the holidays, I designed and soldered about twenty small Christmas tree 🎄 PCBs to give to my relatives. During this year's holidays, I took advantage of some free time to clean up and prepare the project to publish it as an open-source hardware project on GitHub.

My paper, Proprioception Is All You Need: Terrain Classification for Boreal Forests, will be presented in the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024), in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The paper presents BorealTC : a publicly available dataset containing annotated data from a wheeled UGV for various mobility-impeding terrain types typical of the boreal forest. The data was acquired in winter and spring on deep snow and silty loam, two uncommon terrains in an urban setting.

When I talked about my new website to my friend William Guimont-Martin, he immediately had one thing in mind:

Welcome on my site ! Here, I plan to regularly publish posts about programming, robotics, and electronics. I also plan to publish non-technical content.