TARAF: GPS-Free Pedestrian Navigation
A foot-mounted embedded sensing platform that estimates pedestrian position without GPS using IMU data, state estimation, and computer vision ground truth.
View project →Emre Soydemir
Electrical engineering student building hardware-centered systems across biosensing, embedded navigation, signal validation, and PCB design.
My work sits close to the physical layer: microfabricated biosensor chips, automated lab hardware, IMU-based pedestrian navigation, embedded data collection, and signal-delivery electronics. I move between hardware design, firmware, signal validation, fabrication, and data analysis.
Selected Projects
Hardware, firmware, fabrication, and signal systems.
Yanik Lab: Biosensing Hardware
Microfabricated Ti/Au biosensor chips, automated assay workflows, signal-delivery electronics, and optoelectronic diagnostic systems for antigen detection.
View project →Signal-Generation PCB
Compact PCB for delivering 50 Hz, 10 Vpp sinusoidal signal to biosensor chips in automated lab workflows, replacing bench function generator reliance.
View project →Research
Biosensing, microfabrication, and lab automation at Yanik Lab.
At Yanik Lab (UC Santa Cruz), I work on microfabricated Ti/Au biosensor chips for antigen detection, automated assay workflows using Opentrons, signal-delivery hardware, and optoelectronic diagnostic systems. The work spans cleanroom fabrication, PCB design, embedded electronics, and experimental data pipelines.
Read more →Technical Writing
Engineering judgment, documented.
Building a GPS-Free Pedestrian Navigation System
Why raw IMU integration fails, why foot-mounted sensing helps, what ZUPT actually does, and what the system currently does and doesn't handle.