Marvin is an autonomous Low-Cost Service Robot developed for the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (MSFEA) at the American University of Beirut. Marvin was developed for my capstone project at the American University of Beirut under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Asmar. Marvin was designed to support students with questions regarding directions, information about professors, and the location of their offices.

Marvin is built using a Turtlebot 2e platform, Nvidia Jetson TX2 single board computer, Hokuyo LIDAR, Zed stereo depth camera, a Human-Machine Interface (HMI), and a battery. ROS Kinetic is used to interface all of the components because it enables a modular structure These components enable Marvin to perform Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) , speech recognition, and speech synthesis.