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…
Author: Sunidhi Dhawan
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…
General Meeting
Alumni from years past may remember general meetings, events where the entire RoboJackets body would hear from a guest speaker or receive updates on the status of the organization. These meetings used to be a great way for teams to socialize amongst each other and a key opportunity for sponsors to host information and recruitment…
Cabrera Visits the SCC
On September 26th, President Cabrera visited the SCC and had the chance to talk with students and check out the current projects. He chatted with all of the different SCC competition teams, including RoboJackets. While visiting the RoboJackets side, he got a chance to talk with Zach Slaton, the current RoboJackets president, and a few…
Spici
The RoboWrestling team specializes in autonomous robotic sumo wrestling. They’ve had challenges the past few years in finding competitions to compete at because of the cancellation of RoboGames in 2019, and because the pandemic has prevented them from travelling to the All-Japan Robot Sumo Tournament in Tokyo. However, RoboGames 2023 is back on, meaning the…