by Evan Bretl. Our RoboCup team is in the middle of a major software re-organization, re-writing key parts of their software stack in order to leverage ROS 2. What is ROS? According to Open Robotics, the organization that created the software, “The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a set of software libraries and tools that…
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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…
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 – August Spotlight
RoboCup, the international competition centered around autonomous soccer, is an excellent opportunity for roboticists across the world to meet and collaborate. Our RoboCup team is taking that opportunity to collaborate with ThunderBots, the RoboCup Small Size League (SSL) team from the University of British Columbia. Pictured are our two teams at RoboCup 2019 in Sydney,…