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Industrial AGV Autonomy @ VisionNav Robotics

Robotics Engineer · autonomous forklifts on the factory floor

VisionNav Robotics builds vision-guided autonomous forklifts (AGVs/AMRs) for warehouses and plants. I work across the full autonomy and integration stack — SLAM, calibration, perception, PLC communication, and functional safety. Below is a high-level look at the areas I work in, focused on the skills involved rather than client specifics.

Role
Robotics Engineer
Company
VisionNav Robotics
Location
Lawrenceville, GA
Since
Dec 2025
VisionNav industrial AGV
// Vision-guided autonomous forklifts on the warehouse floor.

What I work on

A high-level snapshot — grouped by area, with the skills each one draws on.

01

3D LiDAR SLAM Deployment

Deployed 3D LiDAR SLAM on AGVs with on-site mapping and localization tuning across the perception and safety stacks.

ROS 23D LiDARSLAMLocalization
02

Multi-Sensor & Multi-LiDAR Calibration

Aligned safety and perception LiDARs, tuned external parameters (yaw/pitch), and calibrated fork height and precision docking.

CalibrationExtrinsicsSensor fusion
03

Functional Safety (SICK)

Configured SICK safety laser scanners in Safety Designer — protective fields and functional-safety validation for mixed human–robot environments.

SICKSafety DesignerFunctional safety
04

PLC ↔ AGV Communication

Built PLC–AGV communication on an Allen-Bradley Micro820 over Modbus TCP — I/O mapping, signal handshaking, and traffic-light control logic.

Allen-BradleyModbus TCPPLC
05

Bright-Eye YOLO Vision Pipeline

Contributed to a YOLO detection pipeline — data collection, annotation, training, and ONNX→TensorRT deployment — for pallet and reel detection.

YOLOONNXTensorRTAnnotation
06

System Integration & Fleet Commissioning

Integrated the RCS scheduler, vision server, PLC wrapper machine, and customer MES; commissioned the AGV fleet (routes, scheduling, PDA ops) and ran FMEA analyses.

MESRCSCommissioningFMEA

// Skills across this role

ROS 2 3D LiDAR SLAM Multi-sensor calibration YOLO / TensorRT Allen-Bradley PLC Modbus TCP SICK functional safety MES / RCS integration FMEA Python · Linux