Project Kickoff

Scoped the autonomous quadruped project. Goals:

• Locomotion: stable trot gait on flat terrain, stair climbing
• Stack: ROS2 for inter-module communication, Python for rapid prototyping
• Sensors: IMU (MPU-6050), ToF (VL53L1X) for terrain detection
• Hardware: ST3215 servos (12×), Raspberry Pi 5 as main compute

Out of scope for v1: outdoor operation, dynamic obstacle avoidance, vision.

The hardware BOM is ordered. Build starts February.