Eurobot

In the last weeks we thought a lot about our camera detection system. We had an idea to find the middle point of all cans, so we can drive to this point and pick up all cans at the same time. We do this by finding the middle point of … Weiterlesen …

Last week we redesigned our superstar so that it now has an emergency stop on all sides if it falls off the lifter-SIMA. In addition, it now has enemy detection and can move on its own with the help of a monowheel. Also, we solved a specific problem with the … Weiterlesen …

In the last week we managed to get the camera detection to work. That means, we can now detect ArUco tags from a distance and tell, how far they are away from the main lens (see video). The next steps are to calibrate the camera more and to make the … Weiterlesen …

We managed to create three individual robots, as you can see on the picture. The left one is the current prototype of the superstar – it will be lifted by the right robot in the picture – our lifter SIMA. For testing purposes, we use the middle SIMA to test … Weiterlesen …

In the last week we managed to get a camera to work with our raspberry pi, that will detect ArUco markers in the future. This currently doesn’t work like we want, but it already detects aruco markers in the camera stream. We plan to use this feature with the cans, … Weiterlesen …

Over the last few weeks we spent our time building SIMAs. We now have a larger SIMA, which we are currently using to test how we lift the superstar onto the stage, and a smaller SIMA, which we use for general testing. We have also already tested the speed of … Weiterlesen …

This week we have continued to work on our SIMAs. We have now created a complete 3D model of the SIMA. Once we had designed it, we started to build the upper part of the SIMA. The chassis and the buttons of our test SIMA are completely finished, we will … Weiterlesen …

Last week we came up with new ideas for our robot. We planned to use a simulator to split problems between hardware and software. We also continued working on the SIMAs and came up with a concept for path planning. In addition, we plan to use trajectory control to have … Weiterlesen …

This week we worked on two things at the same time: Main Bot: We have now decided to use a Raspberry Pi after all, after coming to the conclusion that a Teensy does not provide enough computing power. At the moment we are working on implementing pathplanning with PID tuning. … Weiterlesen …