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 warehouse robotics coordination solution for a Black-Friday-scale FC: framed the bottleneck as aisle congestion and dock contention, implemented optimal single-agent A*, extended it to centralized cooperative A* with vertex and edge reservations, and tuned charging/idle policies to sustain zero-collision throughput. The capstone simulation showed the chosen policy outperforming the naive baseline while keeping deadlocks at zero, and the executive pitch translated those results into a concrete single-zone pilot ask.
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 and showed it expanded far fewer nodes than Dijkstra
- Built a reservation table that explicitly prevents both vertex collisions and head-on edge swaps
- Chose a realistic fleet policy: staggered charging, dispersed perimeter idle parking, and priority-watchdog deadlock handling
- Identified the concave throughput curve and locked the fleet size at the simulator’s sweet spot of 35
- Leakage-Free Feature Engineering
- Honest Model Evaluation
The work I submitted20 tasks
12 tasks · 13 lines · Python · 8 written answers · 191 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 Cell2 lines
- Astar Solution Correct4 characters
- Single Unit Challenge465 characters
- Phase2 Recap374 characters
- Role And Mission1 word
- Amazon Robotics Context37 words
- Program Overview1 word
- Grid World Theory1 word
- State Representation Task Validator126 words
- State Representation Task1 word
- Phase1 Recap23 words
- Astar Theory1 word
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