Engineering a Modular Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
An in-progress autonomous underwater vehicle built around a PVC hull, modular subsystem layout, onboard sensing, and a staged path to underwater autonomy.
About
I'm Matthew, born and raised in Toronto and currently in Paris for my bachelor's degree at Sorbonne Université. I'm an electrical and mechanical engineering student focused on robotics, embedded systems, and hardware that is reliable enough to ship. At ISIR, I worked on an AI educational robot across PCB design, ESP32 and Jetson integration, ROS2/SLAM, computer vision, and the software that tied the full stack together. I like projects where the electrical design, firmware, and mechanical integration all have to work cleanly as one system.
Portfolio
AUV Interface PCB for High-Speed Differential Signaling & Control
This project is part of the autonomous underwater vehicle I’m building in Paris. An AUV, or autonomous underwater vehicle, is basically a robot submarine: a compact system that has to balance power delivery, data integrity, sealing, vibration, and electromagnetic noise in a very small space. For this payload interface board, I designed a custom PCB … Read more about AUV Interface PCB for High-Speed Differential Signaling & Control
PCB: NVIDIA Jetson & ESP32 Motor Control & Battery Management
I redesigned the electrical system for Sn.AI.l to turn a collection of modules into one reliable robot power-and-control platform. The PCB tied together the Jetson Orin Nano, motor control, the head servo, charging and battery management, soft shutdown, and wheel-encoder odometry. At first I prototyped the system with breadboards and temporary wiring, but it quickly … Read more about PCB: NVIDIA Jetson & ESP32 Motor Control & Battery Management
SN.AI.l — Developing a Robotics Platform for AI Education at ISIR
Bringing AI Education to Life with Sn.AI.l This summer I had the opportunity to intern at the Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) in Paris, France. During my internship I designed the full electrical architecture and core software systems for an AI educational robot. A big part of that work was turning the robot … Read more about SN.AI.l — Developing a Robotics Platform for AI Education at ISIR
ESP8266 IoT Weather Station with Wi-Fi Telemetry & Cloud Logging
I built this project to turn a compact ESP8266 board into a reliable Wi-Fi weather station that could measure temperature and humidity, publish the data online, and log it over time. It was a small embedded system, but it covered the same core ideas that matter in IoT work: sensor integration, wireless telemetry, cloud connectivity, … Read more about ESP8266 IoT Weather Station with Wi-Fi Telemetry & Cloud Logging
Personal Projects
Automating Captive Portal Reauthentication for Student Residence Networks
Student residence captive portal login screen before the router-side reauthentication flow takes over. In many student residences across France, internet access is handled through a captive portal called Wifirst. Instead of giving devices normal network access immediately, it interrupts traffic until you go through a login or validation flow in the browser. That might be … Read more about Automating Captive Portal Reauthentication for Student Residence Networks