Every year, BattleBots works on a great number of robots, ranging from the fleet of 3lbers that the new members do as a training project, all the way up to 30 lb combat robots to take to competitions all over the United States. This year, BattleBots has four large robots that their team members are…
Category: Newsletter
Preparing for URC
Two years ago, RoboNav began their long-term plan to move away from the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) and instead begin participating in the University Rover Challenge (URC). We previously introduced this upcoming change in the March 2021 newsletter. The University Rover Competition still keeps the core focus of RoboNav, autonomous navigation, while increasing the…
General Interest
Every year, RoboJackets reserves a lecture hall in Howey to host General Interest meetings, where new students at Georgia Tech can come and hear more about RoboJackets so they can pick their teams and join RoboJackets in earnest. This year’s GI drew a combined 317 interested students. RoboCup and RoboNav saw the highest number of…
Meet the 2022-2023 Project Managers
Every year, each of the teams has elections for our new Project Managers. They help guide the teams to work together to solve the many interdisciplinary engineering problems for each competition we participate in. As the new school year begins, we wanted to introduce the new project managers for our five teams. RoboCup – Kevin…
Leadership Retreat
The Leadership retreat was a tradition that began in 2015, involving the president, secretary, and leadership team. Today, the leadership retreat involves the elected core officers, project managers, subteam leads, and appointed positions, as well as a group of RoboJackets alumni. This is the second year that alumni have helped in the planning and execution…
IGVC 2022
The 29th annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) was held this past June in Rochester, Michigan. This competition will be a familiar classic to our alumni; RoboJackets has been in attendance every year since 2003, with the only breaks being in 2005 and 2020 due to a lack of manpower and the COVID-19 pandemic, respectively….
Alumni Spotlight: Phillip Marks
Phillip recently moved from El Segundo, California, to Seattle, Washington, where he is currently helping open a second office as part of his role of site director at Second Order Effects, an electrical engineering consulting firm. Outside of work he enjoys hiking and backpacking, and is looking forward to exploring the PNW area this summer….
EVGP 2022 Competition
This past May RoboRacing attended evGrand Prix Autonomous 2022, our second entrance into the competition. The team’s first entrance to this competition was back in mid-September, and only 8 months later Rigatonii (another “i” included) was back on the track at the Purdue Grand Prix Track in Lafayette, Indiana. The team finished 4th place out…
AVC (Angry Vehicle Competition)
Some alumni may remember that RoboJackets has brought combat robots and RoboRacing robots, including Bigoli, out to Colorado to compete at Sparkfun AVC (Autonomous Vehicle Competition). Sparkfun has since stopped hosting that competition, but this past May a new AVC took its place: the Angry Vehicle Competition. This new AVC only has combat robotics in…
RoboNav End Effector Spotlight
RoboNav’s shift from IGVC to URC prompted the team to focus on finding solutions to new tasks requiring the robot to manipulate different objects such as rocks, tools and even an USB stick. To investigate these new components for the design of their rover, RoboNav’s mechanical team divided into 3 groups: the drive train, arm…