GSOC 2026 | Project #4 or Project #2 Applicant - Completed Technical Challenge - Line Follower Exercise and Follow Road Exercise

[evadrake89]

Hello Mentors,

I am Aditya Prakash Gupta, a junior student pursuing a BS in Electronic Systems from IIT Madras. I am interested in working on Project #4 or Project #2, depending on your guidance and how well my skill set aligns with the project requirements.

As per the JDE Robotics guidelines, I have completed the technical challenge and submitted the required form.

Demonstration Video (C++ Implementation): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SI2C5M3eDKZ6VwZjwqlbzcMopcHRyB5a/view?usp=drive_link

This implementation is not intended to be fully optimized; rather, it demonstrates my ability to understand your development environment and successfully complete the task.

Thank you to the maintainers and @JitinSaxenaa for helping me get started with the environment.

@jmplaza @Arcane-01 — I would appreciate your guidance on the next steps....

[evadrake89]

@javizqh Hi Sir, I have a few questions. To gain more experience for Project #4, I felt that the Follow Turtlebot exercise would be more relevant, so I tried to work on it. However, I was unable to find the corresponding universe/world link for it in my localhost setup.

Additionally, for the Follow Road exercise, the user guide provides instructions in Python, and in the localhost environment I can only see an academy.py file. Does this mean the exercise is intended to be solved only in Python? I was actually planning to implement my solution in C++.

[javizqh]

As per the project description we only have 2 exercises available in C++. The Follow line and the Basic Vacuum cleaner.

In regards to the follow turtlebot it is broken as stated on the exercise status page

[jmplaza]

Take a look at the exercise status table.

[evadrake89]

Hello Mentors @jmplaza @javizqh @Arcane-01,

I have completed implementation of another exercise, this time "Follow Road", solution is inspired by one of the solutions already uploaded here but the algorithm was completely developed by me....

Demonstration Video(Python Implementation): https://drive.google.com/file/d/12nL8YvUx51ygK1W1G5jn1MBeO0HWYsLp/view?usp=drive_link

Again the code is written such that it just completes the exercise, no other objective...... Image processing part was pretty difficult and challenging

I would appreciate any kind of feedback on both of the solutions by mentors....

Also want to know whether should I email to enquire about the next steps?

[jmplaza]

Just write your proposal draft or drafts for the projects you are interested in and share it/them by email with the potential mentors of those projects. It is kind of late now, but we will try to give you feedback to improve your drafts. Anyway, take into account https://github.com/orgs/JdeRobot/discussions/383.