Student Robotics

Our robot is able to drive… Almost! The wheels, the motors, the electronics, everything is working (you can see that in the video below), but we still have a problem with actually moving the bot around: The turning moment of the motors is too small for our relatively heavy bot, … Weiterlesen …

We have finished building the structure of the bot and are halfway through installing the electronics! In the photos you can see the structure of the bot (an aluminum chassis with different floors – we were trying to make it as robust as possible) and some of the electronics already … Weiterlesen …

The virtual competition on last week’s Saturday went well for us: With our two first place, a second place and a fourth place in four matches, we can be quite happy with ourselves. With the league points these results and our challenge submissions give us, we are now in eighth … Weiterlesen …

As we are getting ready for the virtual competition, we are putting all our efforts into the code and have made some great improvements. We will be going confidently into the competition and are looking forward to it! (author: Yannick)

There were some improvements to the arm due to the exceptional weight of its wooden structure. We will instead be using fence wire for one of the sides. This should greatly improve our efficiency when working with the tokens in the arena, since our bot and its servo motors might … Weiterlesen …

If you know Team MAI, then you know our love for themes at robotic competitions. 🙂 Take a look at a selection of our former costumes… 2014/2015: We were monks with glowing auras. And although there was no collusion, team HRS appeared in a similar theme. 2015/2016: There were some … Weiterlesen …

As we have mentioned earlier, we have modelled some of the components of the student robotics kit. It was a lot of work for us to design those in the first place, so we figured other teams might want to use those, so we have decided to make these models … Weiterlesen …

We are working on building an arm to be able to grab tokens. For the purpose of stability it is made from wood, which makes it also quite heavy, that’s why we’re thinking about designing some of the components to fixate it ourselves. Also, we still need to buy some … Weiterlesen …

After a lot of testing and writing parts we are now able to present our simulator bot doing something he may possibly also do in the virtual competition: He is using a marker as an orientation to then go and grab a gold token from the enemy scoring zone and … Weiterlesen …

For testing purposes, we decided to build a plinth. We tried to make it as stable as possible, but also had to find a solution to be able to transport it: The arms can be fixated with screws and are therefore also easily removable. And of course, even though you … Weiterlesen …