Rachit Jaiswal
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ARUW — Real-Time Perception

Completed contributionAdvanced Robotics at UW, September 2025–June 2026, Vision Specialist

Optimized a Jetson-based detection and classification pipeline for competition robotics.

Detection pipeline on the Jetson. Select a stage.

    The problem

    Competition robots need perception results quickly enough to act on moving opponents. The whole pipeline matters: preprocessing, model execution, postprocessing, and moving data between CPU and GPU.

    My contribution

    I optimized a YOLO-based detector and classifier on NVIDIA Jetson using TensorRT, CUDA, quantization, and GPU-accelerated preprocessing and postprocessing. I also improved model execution and CPU–GPU memory transfers.

    Result

    End-to-end latency fell from roughly 30 ms to 6–7 ms. ARUW placed third at the 2026 ARC Robotics Competition, a team result.