About
I’m Álvaro Valencia Maiquez, a Robotics Software Engineer at Auryn Robotics. I graduated in Robotics Software Engineering from URJC (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid).
I like building autonomy end to end — mapping, localization, navigation and perception — taking it from Gazebo simulation all the way to real hardware. This site is my engineering log: projects from my degree and beyond, covering mobile robotics, service robotics, embedded systems, and robot modeling & simulation.
Toolbox
- Robotics: ROS 2, Gazebo, MoveIt, Blender-to-simulation pipelines
- Languages: Python, C++
- Perception & estimation: OpenCV, particle filters (MCL), SLAM
- Embedded & hardware: Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi, sensors and actuators
Selected work
- Search & Rescue Drone — autonomous sweep planning and person detection. Read the write-up.
- ROS 2 Armed Rover — modeled in Blender, simulated in Gazebo, controlled with ROS 2 and MoveIt. Code on GitHub.
- Autonomous Parking — LIDAR gap detection and a parking state machine. Read the write-up.
- Bartender robot — team project from the Software Architecture course. Code on GitHub.
- Raspberry Pi lab work — sensors and actuators examples. Code on GitHub.