by Evan Bretl. Despite the challenges brought on by the pandemic, RoboRacing has continued to move forward on its goals and invest in the future of the team. Both the Electric Vehicle Grand Prix (EVGP; normally held in April) and the International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition (IARRC; normally held in July) were canceled in 2020….
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RoboNav – January 2021 Update
by Dallas Downing. The RoboNav team saw many changes in 2020. The spring semester saw the completion of the third iteration of Jessiii, the robot designed for IGVC (read more here). It also saw the team change its name from IGVC to RoboNav to reflect a shift in focus from a specific competition to autonomous…
RoboCup – January 2021 Update
by Kyla Qi. This semester saw a lot of progress for our RoboCup team. The international competition of the same name in which they compete is still on for 2021, but will be taking place online. Thanks to a new printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) sponsorship from ASEI and the hard work of our electrical…
RoboWrestling – January 2021 Update
by Joe Spall. RoboJackets has participated in autonomous and RC Sumo competitions in California and Japan in the past as part of BattleBots. This semester RoboJackets has formed a separate team to compete in these competitions: RoboWrestling! For a quick recap, autonomous Sumo competitions involve two robots going head-to-head to localize and push their opponent…
BattleBots – January 2021 Update
by Jonathan Spalten. Aside from the new member 2 lb program in Battlebots that we covered in our December issue, Battlebots subteams work on a variety of larger bots. This year our subteams of experienced members are working on combat robots in two weight classes: 12 lb hobbyweights and 30 lb featherweights. In this article,…
Discipline Cores and their Purpose in RoboJackets
by Jonathan Spalten. In general, each RoboJackets Team is divided up into 3 subteams, organized based on their discipline: mechanical, electrical, and software. This enables the teams to divide and conquer the complex robotics challenges they choose to compete in. As a result, a great deal of knowledge in each discipline is developed on a…
2 lber Program Update
by Jonathan Spalten. Many BattleBots alumni will remember the 3lber program, the new member training project in which new members break into teams and work together to make a 3lb combat robot, culminating in a road trip to Motorama to compete in a real competition. Like everything else this year, the team has had to…
RoboResearch Volume 3
by Jonathan Spalten. Another newsletter; another opportunity to feature RoboJackets members who take part in robotics or robotics-adjacent research at the Institute. This month, like the last two, we’ll be featuring two more RoboJackets involved in research. This will be our final volume of RoboResearch in the 2020-2021 school year. Marine Maisonneuve, featured in an…
The Development of the RoboCup Electrical Stack
by Dallas Downing. RoboCup is an international, annual convention meant to promote robotics research through a number of robot-based competitions. The primary goal of RoboCup is to field a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players against the World Cup winners–and win–by 2050. This challenge is quite complex, so different competitions are held within…
RoboCup Internal Meet & Greet
by James Reed. For many RoboJackets members the organization not only brings the opportunity to design and build awesome robots, but also creates an important space to make friends with like minded engineers and socialize. To this end, social events in-person have been a mainstay within the organization for years. However, due to COVID-19 these…