Project Management
Auraison Sprint Plan - Sprint 16 onward Generated: 2026-06-27 (regenerated from live Jira, AURA project, post-restructure) | Updated: 2026-06-27
Planning horizon: Sprints 16--21 (12 weeks, 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-19)
Assignee: Pantelis Monogioudis (availability 0.6)
Sprint capacity: 2 weeks x 5 days x 0.6 availability x 0.8 buffer = 4.8 days/sprint ~ 4 effective days
Source of truth is Jira
This plan is generated from the AURA project at aegean-ai.atlassian.net. Every row links to its
Jira issue. Regenerate after Jira changes via the Atlassian MCP:
project = AURA AND issuetype = Epic AND statusCategory != Done, then each epic's open children.
The June 2026 restructure consolidated the backlog to one governing epic per project , archived
the legacy pre-2026 work under Legacy/Archive (AURA-214 ),
and folded research threads into a single Research Book (AURA-716 ).
This plan covers the 14 open platform and application epics . Out of scope: Legacy/Archive
(AURA-214 ) and Voice & Speech Agents
(AURA-211 ).
Metric Value Open epics 14 Open child issues 141 In progress AR4 sim (AURA-234 ), Ray Serve + vLLM (AURA-577 ), CF AI Gateway (AURA-705 ), Ray on Proxmox (AURA-507 ), VisDrone (AURA-559 ), artifacts/R2 (AURA-580 ), RoboMaker worlds (AURA-600 /AURA-612 ) Priority order Infra → AR4 → Data plane → Control plane → Docs → Apps/Research Sprints planned 6 (Sprints 16--21)
Epic Title Status Open AURA-216 AR4 Physical-AI: model-agnostic VLA control (LeRobot + GR00T) In Progress 18 AURA-670 Infrastructure: compute, storage, and deployment platform To Do 18 AURA-176 Data plane: lakehouse package (COCO-Caption Experiment #0) To Do 9 AURA-544 Aura: agent orchestrator (harness: Claude Agent SDK / Pi) To Do 9 AURA-709 Backend Algorithm Libraries & API (shared) To Do 2 AURA-213 Docs & Architecture To Do 33 AURA-210 User Plane: Robotics, VLA & Simulation To Do 10 AURA-712 TurtleBot Maze — autonomous navigation reference app To Do 6 AURA-677 CUA PDF Reader — agentic document understanding To Do 10 AURA-688 Deep Evidence Agents (DEA) To Do 0 AURA-713 Sidewalk Detection To Do 0 AURA-714 Tube Quality Control To Do 0 AURA-715 Counter-UAS To Do 0 AURA-716 Research Book To Do 26
Estimates (days) are indicative. Only the actively-scheduled epics are itemized below; the application
epics and Research Book are summarized at the end.
Issue Type Title Est Status AURA-507 Task Single-VM Ray cluster on Proxmox (native launcher) 3 In Progress AURA-577 Story Ray Serve + vLLM model serving on gpu-node-3 5 In Progress AURA-705 Task Wire Cloudflare AI Gateway in front of local vLLM 2 In Progress AURA-97 Task Launch distributed Ray cluster + test vLLM serving 3 To Do AURA-346 Task Join GPU server as Ray worker (Docker + NVIDIA runtime) 3 To Do AURA-518 Task Infra / Ray + Docker GPU — cluster, job service, containers 5 To Do AURA-219 Story Policy Server: model-agnostic VLA inference endpoint 5 To Do AURA-245 Task Standalone LeRobot policy inference container with Zenoh 3 To Do AURA-704 Task Model Serving — vLLM / Ray Serve inference 3 To Do AURA-337 Story Optimize Docker notebook execution to reuse venv 2 To Do AURA-613 Story Adapt HF Model Trainer skill notebook for gpu-node-3 2 To Do AURA-614 Story Extend HF Model Trainer skill to local GPU execution 2 To Do AURA-669 Bug Fix gpu-node-3 connection to Coolify server 1 To Do AURA-328 Bug Add DMARC records for aegean.ai (email spoofing) 1 To Do AURA-385 Task Create Claude Code Jira service account 1 To Do AURA-400 Task Deploy Streamlit app to Hugging Face Spaces 2 To Do AURA-671 Task Migrate files OneDrive → Google Drive via RiceDrive 1 To Do AURA-703 Task Consolidate work credentials into 1Password "Work" vault 1 To Do
Issue Type Title Est Status AURA-234 Task AR4 Gazebo pick-and-place simulation 5 In Progress AURA-217 Task AR4 URDF + Gazebo Harmonic sim with gz_ros2_control 5 To Do AURA-238 Task Record pick-and-place episodes via lerobot-ros 3 To Do AURA-239 Task Implement MoveIt pick-and-place demo script 3 To Do AURA-240 Task Create tabletop simulation launch file 2 To Do AURA-218 Task MoveIt2 configuration for AR4 motion planning 3 To Do AURA-220 Task Skill library: manipulation primitives for AR4 3 To Do AURA-221 Task Episode logging and LeRobot dataset builder 3 To Do AURA-222 Task AR4 digital twin integration with data-plane 3 To Do AURA-223 Task AR4 hardware bridge: Teensy 4.1 serial interface 3 To Do AURA-224 Story GR00T N1 integration via Policy Server backend swap 3 To Do AURA-225 Task Synthetic data pipeline via GR00T-Dreams and Cosmos 3 To Do AURA-244 Task Build Zenoh-to-ROS action bridge for policy commands 3 To Do AURA-248 Task Investigate RealSense camera mounting near end-effector 2 To Do AURA-249 Task Add Zenoh query/export tool for recorded episodes 2 To Do AURA-610 Story Evaluate LeRobot ACT/DiffusionPolicy for manipulation BC 3 To Do AURA-611 Task Replace vendor/ar4_ros_driver submodule with upstream 1 To Do AURA-711 Task Policy Evaluation (sim + sim2real framework) 3 To Do
Issue Type Title Est Status AURA-559 Story Onboard VisDrone dataset + Rerun video viz notebook 5 In Progress AURA-580 Story Artifacts table + R2 public storage for Rerun recordings 3 In Progress AURA-324 Story Evaluate Rerun SDK for lakehouse data visualization 2 To Do AURA-326 Story Integrate Rerun SDK visualizer into lakehouse demos 3 To Do AURA-327 Story Demo: agent-controlled Rerun visualizer (NL eval) 3 To Do AURA-330 Task Sample 25k COCO images via minicoco → HuggingFace 2 To Do AURA-570 Task Study HF auto-Parquet, Data Studio, dataset viewer 2 To Do AURA-589 Task Scheduled rclone sync for Paperpile papers every 8h 1 To Do AURA-124 Task Fix sync to HF Hub 1 To Do
Issue Type Title Est Status AURA-347 Story Implement FastAPI job service with Ray actor queue 5 To Do AURA-517 Task Backend wiring — Postgres, Redis, connect agents to API 5 To Do AURA-497 Task Aura: Claude Agent SDK orchestrator for physical AI 5 To Do AURA-372 Story Software architect agent with Compass component sync 3 To Do AURA-378 Story Jobs page — list jobs and submit form 5 To Do AURA-379 Story Clusters page — display KubeRay health 5 To Do AURA-380 Story Experiments page — W&B run browser 5 To Do AURA-381 Story Live job status updates — polling or WebSocket 5 To Do AURA-695 Task Define login flow from aegean.ai site to Auraison 3 To Do AURA-710 Story Perception library — object detection + 6-DoF pose 5 To Do AURA-649 Task DeepStream-based video ingest service (cross-repo) 5 To Do
33 open items — lecture/course content (eaia), Compass setup, README/tooling bug fixes, and the
Docusaurus → fumadocs migration (AURA-696 ). Scheduled
opportunistically. Highest-value near-term: AURA-205
(control ↔ user plane design doc), AURA-206 /
AURA-377 (generative-AI-services ADR — duplicates, reconcile),
and Compass setup (AURA-373 --AURA-375 ).
User Plane: Robotics/Sim (AURA-210 , 10 open) — environment-agent + camera-network work (AURA-408 --AURA-412 ), Zenoh bridge bug (AURA-404 ).TurtleBot Maze (AURA-712 , 6 open) — RoboMaker worlds in progress (AURA-600 , AURA-612 ), ROS 2 docs MCP server, VSLAM pipeline.CUA PDF Reader (AURA-677 , 10 open) — course project; OmniDocBench harness, OpenCUA base, Gradio UI.DEA / Sidewalk / Tube QC / Counter-UAS (AURA-688 , AURA-713 , AURA-714 , AURA-715 ) — governing epics, no scoped child work yet.Research Book (AURA-716 , 26 open) — RL-finetuning and VLM/GRPO evaluations (AURA-618 --AURA-627 ), competitive analyses, and theory threads (score → Fisher → MI). Ongoing; not sprint-bound.
Single-assignee capacity (~4 effective days/sprint). Strategy: finish in-progress infra and AR4 sim
first (they unblock serving and the manipulation chain), then the AR4 episode/policy chain, then data
plane and control-plane wiring.
Issue Title Est Priority AURA-577 Ray Serve + vLLM on gpu-node-3 5 P1 AURA-705 Wire Cloudflare AI Gateway 2 P1
Issue Title Est Priority AURA-234 AR4 Gazebo pick-and-place simulation 5 P1 AURA-507 Single-VM Ray cluster on Proxmox 3 P1
Issue Title Est Priority AURA-239 MoveIt pick-and-place demo script 3 P1 AURA-238 Record pick-and-place episodes (lerobot-ros) 3 P1
Issue Title Est Priority AURA-219 Policy Server: model-agnostic VLA endpoint 5 P1 AURA-711 Policy Evaluation framework 3 P2
Issue Title Est Priority AURA-559 VisDrone dataset + Rerun viz notebook 5 P2 AURA-580 Artifacts table + R2 public storage 3 P2
Issue Title Est Priority AURA-347 FastAPI job service with Ray actor queue 5 P2 AURA-517 Backend wiring — Postgres, Redis, agents → API 5 P2
Milestone Target Sprint Key Deliverable Epic M1: Model serving live Sprint 16 vLLM via Ray Serve on gpu-node-3 behind CF AI Gateway AURA-670 M2: AR4 sim ready Sprint 17 Gazebo pick-and-place sim running AURA-216 M3: AR4 dataset + policy Sprint 19 Episodes recorded, policy server serving a VLA AURA-216 M4: Data plane viz Sprint 20 VisDrone + Rerun recordings public on R2 AURA-176 M5: Backend wired Sprint 21 Job service + Postgres/Redis + agents on API routes AURA-544
Overcommitted sprints: several sprints estimate 8+ days against ~4-day capacity; assumes some tasks beat estimates and parallel work across codebases (infra vs AR4 vs data plane).Single assignee: no cross-person parallelism (0.6 availability already factored in).AR4 dependency chain: sim → episode logging → policy server → GR00T is sequential; a slip in sim (AURA-234 ) cascades.Hardware/infra: Ray serving and gpu-node-3 availability (AURA-669 Coolify connection) gate M1.Docs duplication debt: a few near-duplicate docs tickets survived the orphan triage (e.g. AURA-206 ↔ AURA-377 ) and should be reconciled.
Sprint numbering continues from Sprint 15 (ended 2026-06-27).
Epic issues are not individually scheduled; they close when all children close.
Estimates are indicative.
This plan reflects the post-restructure Jira state: legacy and duplicate work has been archived under AURA-214 ; research consolidated under AURA-716 .