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…
Category: March ’23 Newsletter
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…