Caleb Pollreis
- Autonomous Systems LeadFSAE Electric
- B.Sc. Computer Engineering, Co‑opUniversity of ManitobaClass of 2028
I'm a computer engineering student working in autonomous systems, robotics, and embedded software. I lead the 10-person team building the driverless system for our FSAE electric car, targeting autonomy by 2028.
Open to internships · Jan to Aug 2027
Projects · 5 entries
PILOT - Reinforcement Learning Rocket League Bot
PILOT (Proximal-Iteration Learning Over Time) is an offline Rocket League bot trained with reinforcement learning, in progress: a from-scratch PPO implementation with GAE, custom reward shaping, and a PyTorch training loop, trained against a headless physics engine for sample efficiency.
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ProjectJUN 2026Music Spectrum Analyzer
A 32-band acrylic spectrum analyzer for a home sound system, in progress: FFT-based DSP on a Teensy 4.1 tapping S/PDIF from a PC or a Bluetooth receiver, driving 640 WS2812 LEDs over OctoWS2811.
ProjectJUL 2026BMO, an Embodied AI Agent
A local multimodal AI agent living in a BMO shell, in progress: a quantized Qwen 3 LLM on a Raspberry Pi 5 with Whisper voice input, TTS output, a live camera for real-world context, and Steam game streaming to double as a console.
ProjectSEP 2026Microduck, a Sim-to-Real Biped
Just ordered: a Pollen Robotics Microduck, the $399 open-source walking biped that Hugging Face (soon Nvidia, pending the acquisition) sells. Plan is to train locomotion policies in the community Isaac Lab port first, then move to Nvidia's own Isaac Sim / Isaac GR00T tooling as it matures.
ProjectSEP 2026Trip Mapper
A trip planner that reads one JSON file and generates a day-coded map, a full itinerary, a booking checklist, and a Google My Maps import, with a live-reloading local UI for planning against the map as you edit.
FSAE · 9 entries
Competition 2026
The 2026 competition trip: the last shop days before loading the trailer, paddock work between sessions, and the car at the Mobil 1 victory lane.
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AutonomyJUN 2026Standing Up the Driverless Program
Year one as Driverless System Officer: the team research, rules digest, vehicle and software architecture, team structure, design review and budget behind a driverless car for 2028.
ManufacturingMAR 2026Filament and print stock delivery
Filament and print stock delivery. Imported from the Portfolio album, source IMG_4805.jpg.
FirmwareFEB 2025Controller board in the printed fixture
Controller board in the printed fixture. Imported from the Portfolio album, source IMG_7904.jpg.
FirmwareNOV 2024Wiring the Car's Nervous System: CAN, the BMS, and the Motor Controller
Developing CAN 2.0 communication between our custom PCBs, the battery-management system, and the PM100DX motor controller, on STM32, where a dropped frame is a safety problem.
ManufacturingJUL 2024Building the Accumulator, Safely
Manufacturing the HV accumulator: qualifying every cell through tab testing, assembling segments, the BMS bring-up, and the harnessing and safety discipline that a 400V pack demands.
ManufacturingJUN 2024Competition 2024
The 2024 competition trip: the rolling chassis coming together in the shop, moving the accumulator and equipment through the paddock, and the number 220 car at ePBR24.
ManufacturingJUN 2024Car from above, packaging check
Car from above, packaging check. Imported from the Portfolio album, source IMG_5981.jpg.
FirmwareMAY 2024Bench test rig with the dev board
Bench test rig with the dev board. Imported from the Portfolio album, source IMG_5782.jpg.
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