ZephastraZEPHASTRAROBOTICS
Research topics

Long-term topics in robot runtime, diagnosis, and reliability.

These topics are in progress. Technical notes will be published after reproducible experiments and conclusion checks.

ROS 2 runtime model

How nodes, topics, services, actions, and lifecycle states shape a mission

PLANNED RESEARCH TOPIC

TF and odometry

Frames, timestamps, wheel motion, and kinematic consistency

PLANNED RESEARCH TOPIC

ros2_control

Controllers, hardware interfaces, and differential-drive bases

PLANNED RESEARCH TOPIC

SLAM

Mapping, loop closure, drift, and map quality

PLANNED RESEARCH TOPIC

Nav2

Planning, control, costmaps, and recovery behavior

PLANNED RESEARCH TOPIC

rosbag2

Recording, replay, sanitization, and reproducible experiments

PLANNED RESEARCH TOPIC

Incident review

Timeline, evidence, root cause, remediation, and verification

PLANNED RESEARCH TOPIC

ZephaRobot

Episode models, diagnostic rules, and report design

PLANNED RESEARCH TOPIC

Publishing standard

Run the system, record data, reproduce the problem, and verify the conclusion before publishing an engineering note.