Self-directed project
Amazon Robotics - Black-Friday Fleet Coordination
Software Engineering · September 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built an end-to-end Amazon Robotics fleet-coordination prototype for Black Friday operations. The work framed the bottleneck as aisle congestion and dock contention, implemented A* plus centralized reservation-table cooperative planning with vertex and edge protections, chose staggered charging and dispersed idle parking, and validated the policy in simulation with zero collisions and a clear throughput trade-off before pitching a scoped FC pilot to leadership.
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 reservation table that prevents both vertex collisions and head-on edge swaps
- Selected a priority-watchdog conflict policy and justified it with simulator trade-offs
- Identified a concave throughput curve and locked onto a specific fleet-size sweet spot
- Delivered a leadership-ready memo with a deterministic safety story and scoped pilot ask
- Leakage-Free Multi-Agent Coordination
- Honest Simulator-Based Evaluation
The work I submitted20 tasks
12 tasks · 8.0k characters · Python · 8 written answers · 197 words
- Role And Mission115 characters
- Amazon Robotics Context459 characters
- Program Overview133 characters
- Grid World Theory119 characters
- State Representation Task ValidatorPython · 1.8k characters
- State Representation Task341 characters
- Phase1 Recap348 characters
- Astar Theory124 characters
- Astar Implementation Cell3.8k characters
- Astar Solution Correct4 characters
- Single Unit Challenge468 characters
- Phase2 Recap374 characters
- Role And Mission1 word
- Amazon Robotics Context37 words
- Program Overview1 word
- Grid World Theory1 word
- State Representation Task Validator132 words
- State Representation Task1 word
- Phase1 Recap23 words
- Astar Theory1 word
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