RoboCup

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Welcome to the Georgia Tech Robojackets RoboCup wiki! We meet weekly on Wednesday at 7PM in the Tin Building (building #48 on the map - Mechanical Engineering Research Building) though the meeting time may change this summer.

Announcements

• 02/22/2007 WE HAVE SUBMITTED OUR TDP AND DEMO MOVIE!!! We will meet again next Thursday, wish us luck!!
• 01/24/2007 HW for everyone. So we have this technical description paper TDP to write for qualification. This is an example of another first years team TDP the guys from the MIT/Harvard team. Look at it and try to get a grasp of what will be involved in this paper. As I see it we need to take a similar format but push our Vision and our new protocol to the front. -Phillip Marks
• 01/22/2007 Put up a link to our Google Calendar and also created pages for board design and how to sample parts. More on parts sampling soon-Phillip
• 05/06/06 Found a mailing list for small size hosted by the CoC here

Important Items

• Schedule for the competition by league. We need to be ready to set-up on Sunday
• A more detailed schedule
• Team Calendar
• How to Sample Parts for RoboCup
• Official Rules
• General Project Roadmap
• File:TDP.pdf
• Fundraising Info from SGA

Systems

• Electrical System Information
  • Motion Control
  • Communication (Wireless/Wired)
    • Wireless Protocol
    • Wireless Co-processor
  • Sensors
  • Microprocessor
  • Power
    • Batteries
    • Power Regulation
  • Motor System
  • Roller/Shooter
  • Kicker
• Vision System Information
  • Robocup Image Acquisition
  • Robocup Image Processing
• Software System Information
  • Information on the "thinking" code
• Mechanical System Information

Links

• HJTAG Settings
• Small-Size League Website
• 2006 Qualification Procedure-The 2007 qualification procedure will be very similar to this.
• Reasons for not qualifying (2005)-We need to focus on making sure our robots exceed these goals
• Small size resource page - link dump, very good!!!
• Cornell Big Red very good technical documentation!! Check out the ME writeups!
• CMU webpage - great resource
• Example of a RoboCup centric design proposal/primer
• RoboCup Wiki
• switch
• We could just buy the robots here