By Cameron Loyd This year for the first time, the RoboJackets BattleBots team competed in the National Havoc Robot League (NHRL). The NHRL was chosen as an alternative to the much-beloved Motorama as BattleBots’s new yearly “big bots” competition. Four bot teams traveled to NHRL in Norwalk, CT to compete — three 30-lbers (Chonkiii, Anxieti,…
Meet the Core Officers
By Brad Geving President: Priyanka Rajan Priyanka is a 3rd-year Computer Science major. She has been an active member of RoboJackets and has held various roles within the organization. Last year, she served as the RoboNav Project Manager, where she focused on establishing the team’s foundations for the University Rover Challenge (URC), the team’s new…
Kirbii Enters the Dohyo at Robogames 2023
By Cameron Loyd and Jonathan Spalten It’s been several long years since RoboWrestling has gone to competition, but the time has finally come. We’ll be presenting a high level overview of their robot, Kirbi, and covering Kirbii’s debut at Robogames 2023. The RoboWrestling team was created to compete in autonomous sumo competitions, a specific brand…
RoboCup Qualification
Every year for RoboCup, all teams must qualify to participate. This is no different for this year! The requirements for RoboCup SSL (the league that RoboJackets participates in) are a TDP and a short team video. The TDP (Team Description Paper) serves as documentation of technical progress and learning the team has made over the…
A New Competition from evGP Autonomous
Earlier this year, the RoboRacing project manager, Megan Huang, reached out to the director of Purdue Motorsports after he had a noticeable period of inactivity from last year’s competition into the fall. Unfortunately, he eventually confirmed that evGP had decided to cancel the Autonomous division. Building an autonomous full-size go kart is no small task,…
FRC Kickoff 2023
Every year in January, RoboJackets plays an instrumental role in hosting the kickoff for the FIRST Robotics Challenge, the event in which FIRST unveils the specific game rules that the teams will be using in the coming year of competition. This year was no different. As usual, RoboJackets helped coordinate workshops to help teams succeed…
RoboNav’s Autonomous Drone
RoboNav has been exploring many design options as they build the software, firmware, and mechanical foundations for their new competition, the University Rover Competition (URC). One such design decision the team has made is to use a drone to help simplify the autonomous portion of URC. The autonomous challenge is the hardest portion of URC,…
RoboJackets @ Basketball Game
One of the most direct ways RoboJackets can promote robotics is by presenting our projects to a general audience. RoboJackets had a unique opportunity to do so at the McCamish Pavilion during a GT basketball game on December 6th. The basketball game took place on “Robotics Night,” and also had other robotics projects at GT…
Hockii’s New Teeth
Year after year, RoboJackets members continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in competition robotics. The latest iteration of our combat robot Hockii is no exception. The 12-pound Hockii is a type of combat robot known as a “meltybrain”, which uses its drive to spin and hit opponents with the entire body [read…
New RoboRacing Drive System
RoboRacing has been working on an autonomous go-kart since 2019 and have learned and iterated on every aspect of their vehicle. This is certainly the case with the drive motor system. When the team first began evGP, a few hardware components were required as part of the rules to be standardized across the robots. Some…