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…
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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,…
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…
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…
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…
New Member Training
by Jonathan Spalten Participating in RoboJackets involves a great deal of hands-on engineering knowledge and an intense desire to learn. Because RoboJackets accepts members regardless of prior experience in robotics, we created a training program to help our members quickly learn what they need to know to contribute to the teams. Even experienced members can…
RoboJackets Team Socials
by Jonathan Spalten. RoboJackets places robotics as the focus of our endeavors, but sometimes it pays to slow down and give our members a chance to get to know each other better in a non-engineering context. Many alumni will remember general meetings, in which the entire team comes together either to hear a presentation given…