Damien LaRocque
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Damien LaRocque
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M.Sc. Field Robotics @ ULaval | Currently searching for jobs in Robotics
🇨🇦 🇧🇪 | Python, ROS {,2}
Programmation, robotique, électronique
Programming, robotics, electronics
#KiCad #Python #ROS #FreeCad #Linux
https://damienlarocque.gitlab.io/about
Excited to announce UVT-RS, my first #robotics project in #Rust! 🦀

It’s a set of crates for working with Uncrewed Vehicle #Trajectory (UVT) files.

This project was a great way to learn Rust crate development and robotics #data formats.
More infos on #GitHub: github.com/IamPhytan/uv...
August 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Future is not buying the latest tech devices, but reusing old devices.

I had a Galaxy Tab tablet that was made obsolete with latest #Android versions. I recently recovered it and installed #LineageOS on it. Now, it is perfect for reading and annotating #robotics papers on the go!

#research
May 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In this paper, we trained a DINOv2 -based classifier on iNaturalist data to generate 140k pseudo-labels from #UAV imagery. The labels were used to pretrain and fine-tune a semantic #segmentation model, outperforming manual labelling on plant species segmentation 🌲.

#RemoteSensing #ComputerVision
April 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
While I took a year off of robotics competitions, my robotics team is getting ready for #Eurobot 2025!

Team #Chat #Robotique 🐱 will be participating in the largest #robotics competition in #Europe, in #France at the end of May. Stay tuned for more updates!
March 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In 2023, in preparation to the holidayd, I designed and soldered about 20 small Christmas tree🎄 PCBs to give to my relatives. This year, I've cleaned it up and published it as an open-source hardware project: github.com/IamPhytan/ch....

#OpenHardware #PCBArt #Electronics #PCB #Embedded
January 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
(1/2) 2024 was a year with lots of ups and downs
I had the opportunity to see a solar #eclipse, attend AI talks in #MILA, publish my first paper as a first author, finish a master's degree in robotics, compete in a European #robotics contest in #France, and attend #IROS2024 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
January 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A gift idea for all your #maker friends : storage boxes (cookie boxes may also work 🍪)

#robotics #electronics #hardware #engineering
December 14, 2024 at 4:12 AM
🖼️ A figure with #TikZ is worth a thousand words

To present the underlying logic behind a #rosbag, I made a figure for my #thesis illustrating a field experiment and the timeline of a rosbag.
Each tick represents a message and each color represents a #ROS topic.

#Robotics #Research #Robot #LaTeX
December 6, 2024 at 6:40 PM
'Tis the Season for #Makers

At this time of the year last year, I made some small #Christmas #tree shaped #PCBs. Everything was done with #FOSS: @freecad.bsky.social for the outline, Inkscape for the decorations, @kicad.org for the PCB design, PlatformIO for programming.

#Electronics #Robotics
November 28, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Clearpath Robotics #husky UGV electrical architecture diagram made with #TiKZ #latex

#robotics #ROS #ROS2
November 25, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Field #Robotics be like:
"Robot, can you pick the coffee cup and place it on the table over there?"

#Robotics #RoboticsResearch #Research
November 19, 2024 at 2:21 AM