Trixxie
| Trixxie | |
|---|---|
| Year Of Creation | 2005-2006 |
| Versions | |
| Latest Revision | deprecated |
| Revision Years | NA-NA |
| Information and Statistics | |
| Farthest Distance | NA |
| Fastest Time | NA |
| Highest Finish AutoNav | NA |
| Highest Finish Design | NA |
| ← Buzzbot Candi → | |
Contents
Competitions
IGVC 2006
- Results
- Distance: 0 feet
- Design Competition Placement: 13th in design group (454 / 800 points)
- AutoNav Competition Placement: 28th (last)
Versions
Trixxie
At Competition
Mechanical Design & Issues
Trixxie is a basic cube-shaped robot with two motors mounted on the front. The base has three layers in ascending order: a level for holding Trixxie's heavy batteries, a mid level for holding electronics and the laptop, and a top level on which a payload may sit.
Electrical Design & Issues
The electronic hardware of the IGVC robot is built around a central laptop. The laptop provides a central processing unit for all data aquired from the modules.
View a schematic diagram of the modules, power distribution, and code.
Laptop Hardware Specs
Internal Access:
- Processor
- Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.40GHz
- Physical Memory
- 512 MB RAM
- IDE Master
- 30GB ATA-5 4200RPM HD
- File system partition = dev/hda2 18GB
External Access:
The inputs and outputs of the laptop are described by which physical side of the laptop on which they occur.
- Rear
- DC-in Jack
- Parallel Port
- External Display Port (AGP)
- Video Out Port (S-Video)
- Serial Port
- Two USB Ports - Each supports USB 1.0 and 2.0
- Modem Jack
- Network Jack
- PS/2 Port
- Left
- Security Keylock
- Firewire Port (IEEE 1394)
- Audio Line-in Jack
- Audio Line-out Jack
- Volume Control Knob
- 3.5 Inch Floppy Drive
- Right
- PC Card Slot - Accepts one Type III PC card or two Type I/II PC cards
- Front
- IDE Slave
- DVD/CDRW-
Laptop Software
Under Construction - To add a how-to for using the GUI, descriptions of the files, and additional software development tools.
OS: The IGVC laptop is running Debian Linux kernel v.2.6.8.1. The KDE v.3.3 desktop environment is also running on the machine.
GUI: To activate the GUI, open a UNIX terminal, navitage to laptop_svn, and type ./IGVC.
How-Tos:
Software Design & Issues
Most of the code this year was written by Ben, David, or Spencer. Much of this code was also inherited from the 2004-2005 year. There are notes on that code here: File:Notes on Ben's Code.pdf.
The code is stored in an SVN repository:
URL: svn://130.207.76.145/igvc
Username/Password: Talk to David, Spencer, or Michael to get one.
The following image sequences were taken on 10/08/2005 as test footage for creating vision algorithms.
- IGVCclip1.zip - IGVCclip1movie.mov
- IGVCclip2.zip - IGVCclip2movie.mov
- IGVCclip3.zip - IGVCclip3movie.mov
- IGVCclip4.zip - IGVCclip4movie.mov
- IGVCclip5.zip - IGVCclip5movie.mov
- IGVCclip6.zip - IGVCclip6movie.mov
Animations were assembled and uploaded by David, using the ConcatenateMovieSegments program.
Additional Information
Team Members
Gallery
Competition track
Competition track
Tree obstacle
Unloading the robot
Preparing for a run
Robot chassis
Robot drive train
Measuring the drive train
Measuring the wheels
Working in the tent
Working in the tent
Tent
Robot in the tent
