Eurobot

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 …

We are currently planning our system for lifting the plants. we are thinking of a relatively simple multi-slot gripper that can grip all five pots at once. We are currently finalizing our concept for the gripper so that we can then create a 3d model of it. We are still … Weiterlesen …

We have continued our ROS development over the last 2 weeks. We switched from a system that determined our position based on speed to a system where the position is based on direct encoder data. We also started our first attempts at PID tuning to compensate for the difference in … Weiterlesen …

The last two weeks we have been working on implementing our hardware in ROS. We also started building our first SIMA and simulating our bot in Gazebo. We coded a hardware translation package to convert the data from the Arduinos to ROS and vice versa. We get ticks from the … Weiterlesen …

This week we have been working on ROS (Robot Operating System) and have been setting up the components and connections. We started by hanging up our RP Lidar A1 to create measuring points around the lidar to map the area. We visualized the values in rvis to find out that … Weiterlesen …

Last week we embarked on a trip to the Eurobot finals in France. We were delighted about our performance in Dresden and we were very much looking forward to the event. Our main goal was to gain some experience and learn from more professional teams without setting any expectations in … Weiterlesen …

On April 22.04.2023 and 23.04.2023 we went together with the Big Robot to the competition in Dresden. Enjoying our trip, there were some struggles at the beginning of the competition. First Day (22.04.2023), we started at 9:00 a clock in the morning and worked till round about 1:00 p.m. nighttime. … Weiterlesen …

In the last weeks we made a ton of progress: Vacuum system We found out, that our vacuum-system doesn´t work. We didn’t have enough thrust to suck enough air in, so we can´t put the balls into the bot. The problem was on our engine, which had too few resistance … Weiterlesen …