Self-directed project
Amazon Robotics - Black-Friday Fleet Coordination
Software Engineering · August 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built an end-to-end warehouse fleet coordination prototype for Black Friday surge conditions. The work framed the bottleneck correctly as aisle congestion and dock contention, implemented admissible A* plus a centralized reservation-table cooperative planner with vertex and edge safety, and validated a realistic policy stack for charging and idle placement. The final recommendation was grounded in simulator evidence showing zero collisions and sustained throughput under the chosen policy.
Graded against
- Problem framing & operational stakes20%
- Algorithmic depth - A* and cooperative coordination30%
- Coordination policy realism - deadlock, charging, idle25%
- Throughput trade-off analysis15%
- Executive pitch to leadership10%
Passed · pass mark 55/100
What stood out6
- Implemented A* with an admissible Manhattan heuristic on a 4-connected grid and verified it against optimal path length and runtime comparisons.
- Built a reservation table that reserves both vertices and directed edges, preventing same-cell collisions and head-on swaps.
- Selected a realistic coordination policy: priority/watchdog replan, staggered charging, and dispersed perimeter idle parking.
- Used simulator outputs to identify a concave throughput optimum at 36 robots and tied the final pitch to zero collisions over the full shift.
- Leakage-Free Feature Engineering
- Honest Model Evaluation
The work I submitted20 tasks
12 tasks · 7.4k characters · Python · 8 written answers · 364 words
- Role And Mission115 characters
- Amazon Robotics Context459 characters
- Grid World Theory104 characters
- State Representation Task ValidatorPython · 1.8k characters
- State Representation Task341 characters
- Phase1 Recap348 characters
- Astar Theory124 characters
- Astar Implementation Cell3.2k characters
- Astar Solution Correct4 characters
- Single Unit Challenge464 characters
- Phase2 Recap374 characters
- Multi Agent Problem111 characters
- Role And Mission1 word
- Amazon Robotics Context37 words
- Grid World Theory1 word
- State Representation Task Validator133 words
- State Representation Task1 word
- Phase1 Recap23 words
- Astar Theory1 word
- Astar Implementation Cell167 words
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