APF · depth camera
Artificial Potential Field
A 3D field: the goal pulls, obstacles seen by an OAK-D Lite depth camera push, and the drone follows the sum in real time.
How it works → github.com/blar-tw/APF ↗I build systems that fly safely.
I focus on localization and planning, especially obstacle avoidance, and also work on perception and control. Fluent in PX4 and ROS 2. Outside of drones, I love hackathons. Aiming for AIGP in 2027.
- Planners in PX4 SITL
- 6
- Hackathons
- 6
- Competitions, 2027
- 2
- Public repos
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I'm an engineering student drawn to machines that have to think for themselves: robots, drones, and the AI behind them. I learn by building, so most of what I know came from projects, research, and hackathons.
How I got here
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Age 11
First contact
The spark: Scratch, and my first competition.
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2023 · age 15
Software Design Club
Joined the CS club in high school and learned competitive programming.
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2024 · age 16
CS Clubs Alliance
Became lead coordinator.
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2024 · age 16
First lab: NYCU ICAL
Research intern. Drones, ROS 2, PX4.
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2026 · age 17
Planners that fly
APF, HOLO-DWA and MPC in PX4 SITL, plus D-Guide, a voice-commanded guide drone.
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2026 · age 18
Hackathons
DAHacks 5.0, 2nd place with BikeScape. Cal Hacks 13.0 with Orkio.
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Now · age 18
De Anza College
Computer engineering, transferring to a UC.
Research · in progress
Control Barrier Functions × PX4
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The planner asks for a velocity straight at the goal, through the wall.
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A barrier function h(x) marks the safe set: everywhere h ≥ 0.
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The safety filter bends the command just enough to stay inside, and the drone slides along the edge.
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But PX4 tracks velocity with lag τ. When α·τ > ¼ the guarantee breaks and the drone overshoots. The project derives that bound with calculus and tests it in PX4 SITL.
Autonomy lab · PX4 SITL + Gazebo
Six ways to not hit a pillar.
Each one is a full ROS 2 node flying a simulated multirotor through the same kind of obstacle field.
Take the drone apart →VFH · 2D LiDAR
Vector Field Histogram
Every control tick, a polar histogram of obstacle density; fly the most open direction that still heads for the goal.
How it works → github.com/blar-tw/VFH ↗NMPC · CasADi + IPOPT
Model Predictive Control
Re-solves a receding-horizon optimization every tick from LiDAR, sending 3D velocity commands toward the goal.
How it works → github.com/blar-tw/MPC ↗RRT* · global planning
RRT*
Grows a tree through 3D space, rewires it toward a near-optimal path, and re-plans when the LiDAR map says the route is blocked.
How it works → github.com/blar-tw/RRT- ↗DWA · holonomic
HOLO-DWA
A holonomic take on the Dynamic Window Approach: reactive, LiDAR-driven avoidance for a multirotor that can move sideways.
How it works → github.com/blar-tw/HOLO-DWA ↗APF: Newton — push the object.
WARP: Einstein — curve the space it lives in.
WARP · Riemannian geometry
WARP
Obstacles enter a conformal metric that puts every surface at infinite geodesic distance. Collision would need an infinite path. Closed-form, no solver.
How it works → github.com/blar-tw/WARP ↗The airframe · PX4 SITL + Gazebo Garden
The drone
A Holybro X500 V2 with a Pixhawk 6C.
Take it apart in 3D →
Selected work
Hackathon · Cal Hacks 13.0 · 2026
Orkio
A coordination layer for AI coding agents on different laptops. Hooks snapshot each agent’s unfinished work to Git, agents share plans over MCP, and an orchestrator merges the snapshots and runs tests to catch conflicts before they reach main. In a head-to-head build, it took 2 prompts instead of 9 and finished in 10 minutes instead of 16.
TypeScript · Factory Droid SDK · SpacetimeDB · Claude Code hooks · MCP
devpost ↗ github.com/chuddrw/CalHacks26 ↗
Web app · Live · 2026
De Anza Compass
A free transfer and degree planner for De Anza students. Upload a Degree Works audit and see what’s left for UC transfer majors (from ASSIST) and which De Anza degrees and certificates you already qualify for, including ones you never applied for.
Next.js · React · Prisma · PostgreSQL · Supabase · Chrome extension
deanzacompass.com ↗Hackathon · 12 hours · 2026
Constellation
A campus social app for students in their first weeks. Swap cards by NFC, watch your circle grow as an Obsidian-style graph, find people with similar interests among friends of friends, and keep notes on people you meet. AI suggests the notes; you approve every line.
React · Hono · Postgres · WebSocket
Safe ↔ Green
Hackathon · DAHacks 5.0 · 2026
Bikescape
Two bike maps for Cupertino. Every street gets a 1–10 safety score from Street View photos and city data; routing runs Dijkstra on “felt distance,” and real crash records are used only to validate the scores.
Python · Claude Vision · OSM · Dijkstra
github.com/blar-tw/Dahacks ↗Also built
Hackathon · Taipei
O-Guide
A Taipei travel planner that checks lodging against city open data, builds itineraries with RAG, and pushes weather and crowd updates through an AI agent.
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ROS 2 · drone
D-Guide
A voice-commanded guide drone: it geocodes your destination, turns Google Maps walking directions into GPS waypoints, and flies ahead of you.
repo ↗Robotics camp · 2026
Micromouse workshop
Line-following on the BitRacer Pro Max at the TMIRC summer camp, programmed two ways: MakeCode on micro:bit and Arduino on the on-board MCU.
repo ↗Windows · Python
Screen Answer
Press a hotkey and Claude reads the problem under your mouse, then shows step-by-step work with rendered LaTeX, code blocks and matplotlib figures.
repo ↗