Perth, Western Australia

Working on robots and autonomy.

Mechanical engineering masters at UWA, with a thesis on motion planning and simulation for an autonomous campus shuttle. Off the clock I build FPV drones. This is the work so far, and what comes next.

Things I have built.

Research, commercial tooling and garage projects.

Autonomous campus shuttle
Master's thesis on motion planning and simulation for a self-driving shuttle, with an Autoware planning module and scenario testing in AWSIM. Alongside it: mapping, localisation and sensor calibration on the vehicle itself. Final mark 87.
C++ · Python · ROS · Autoware
Detection and tracking pipeline
A YOLOv8 detection pipeline built end to end: object detection with tracking that follows people and vehicles through video, draws the boxes and keeps a live count.
Python · YOLOv8
Custom FPV drones
Quads built from the frame up: soldering, radio and video links, embedded flight-stack configuration and tuning, and the repairs that follow flying them hard.
Hardware · embedded
Python tooling in production
Python tools that handle document and data work on engineering, energy and resources projects, written during internships and still in daily use.
Python

Some university work stays off GitHub because I tutor the units it comes from; happy to talk through any of it.

The record.

Education
Master of Professional Engineering, Mechanical (UWA, 2026), preceded by a BSc in Engineering Science and Data Science.
Engineering
Internships spanning pressure equipment and piping on mining and energy projects, and hands-on build work on a hydrogen haul-truck program, including ownership of its parts data.
Teaching
Tutor at UWA in risk, reliability and safety, and in mobile robotics.
Now
Getting a ground-up robot build underway, and open to graduate robotics and autonomy roles in Perth or well beyond it.

Say hello.

harrytolcher1@gmail.com

Based in Perth. Always happy to talk robots.