Eurobot 2023/2024

We made a lot of progress last week. A big part of this is the pathfinding code: We can now drive to a specific waypoint in our tactics while measuring lidar data, and reroute if an enemy is in the way. It works surprisingly well and we’re now working on … Weiterlesen …

We continued to work on the prototype this week. We worked on the belt drive and continued to work on the driving mechanics. In contrast to last year, this year we are using a stepper to drive the belt drive, which means that we can precisely track positions on the … Weiterlesen …

We have spent the last two weeks developing our gripping system and working on our ROS alternative. We have now written our own script to get the lidar data into our own map. At the moment we are also working on getting the current position data from the robot into … Weiterlesen …

This week we started to build a prototype of our gripping system and looked for alternatives to ROS. Since our robot still can’t drive with ROS, we decided to look for alternatives.  At the moment we plan to move the robot with Phython on the Rasperry Pi and control the … Weiterlesen …

The last two weeks we have mainly been working on the further development of our designs and concepts. Our SIMAs are now started from a central device and then automatically move to the position of the plants. These SIMAs are now also driving straight, as you can see in the … Weiterlesen …

This week we finalized our first gripper, repaired our robot again and managed to get ROS to communicate with the motors. Our gripper consists of two slots that move towards each other, with this we can take 6 plants at once. Our procedure consists of shaping the plants with our … Weiterlesen …

Over the holidays, we mainly worked on the hardware. We further developed the simas and started our gripping system for the pots. With the software, we got our pathplanning working and are now trying to make it drive.  For pathplanning, we use ROS with Navstack to estimate and drive our … Weiterlesen …

This week we started to think about the hardware. We first focused on the gripper arm for the plants. At first we wanted to grab the plants from the side, but now we have decided to grab them from above due to the unfavorable position of the plants on the … Weiterlesen …