Monat: April 2016

Having just landed at Heathrow airport we are now working on assemling the robot and giving it a few final touches. We are really confident that our robot will perform nicely, after two of our coders worked over the code inside the plane. And of course, as soon as the … Weiterlesen …

After a few inconvinient problems at the airport in Munich, we just borded our plane and are now on our way to Heathrow airport. We are already looking forward to the competition and meeting the other teams.

Because we have to get to England in some way, Student Robotics starts a day earlier for us as our plane goes in less then two hours. We would like to greet all of our teammembers who could not come to the competition. We woud also like to thank those … Weiterlesen …

The situation is clearly getting out of hand. Some of the scientists are getting into blind panic while others start to get serious with the plans of arranging a quarantine. All vehicles are ready, the scientists will be accommodated in Camp Charlie and the quarantine zone will be set around … Weiterlesen …

Power supplies only last for 8 days! As you can see on the image above, the problem with the wrongly planned power supply to the test zone is getting serious now. The scientists are now getting nervous and start to make up lists what should be packed in case of … Weiterlesen …

Long time I´v kept quiet… but now I have a serious issue to tell you… Those scientist are now going completely mad as they started to experiment on one of their colleagues… There are now reports telling that they are working on a project called the „SUPER SECRET SUPER HUMAN … Weiterlesen …

If you take a look at our initial design, you can see how close it was to the final product. The bottom layer is practically a perfect copy. And even though we made a few adjustments to the robots arms (the robot arms in the picture are still the old … Weiterlesen …

A new week, a new problem: During our weekly trials we discovered a new problem with our Robot Positioning System which is used to return back into the starting zone. But it’s likely that our problem will be fixed until this Friday.After this error will be fixed, we have a … Weiterlesen …

Some of you may have already seen our latest blogpost, if that’s not the case I definitely suggest watching it because we made some big steps concerning the progress of grabbing a token and returning home with it.If some of you were wondering how we managed to drive up to … Weiterlesen …

We did it!!! After 23 weeks of hard work which included planning, robot assembly, programming and testing, we finally got our hardware and software to work together. The robot can now locate tokens in the arena, grab them and return them to our zone. (author: Thorben)