Candi

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Candiii
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Year Of Creation 2006-2007
Versions
Current Version deprecated
Update Year 2007-2008, 2008-2009
Information and Statistics
Farthest Distance
Fastest Time
Highest Placement AutoNav
Highest Placement Design

Competitions

IGVC 2007

  • Bot Version: Candi
  • Results
    • Distance:
    • Design Competition Placement:
    • AutoNav Competition Placement:


IGVC 2008

  • Bot Version: Candii
  • Results:
    • Time:
    • Design Competition Placement:
    • AutoNav Competition Placement:


IGVC 2009

  • Bot Version: Candiii
  • Results:
    • Time:
    • Design Competition Placement:
    • AutoNav Competition Placement:

Versions

Candi (V1.0)

At Competition

Mechanical Issues & Improvements

Electrical Issues & Improvements

Software Issues & Improvements

Candii (V2.0)

At Competition

Mechanical Issues & Improvements

Electrical Issues & Improvements

Diagram showing the flow of data between the various robot controller components

Needs correction:

  • GPS communicates over COM2(/dev/ttyS1)
  • Time server (NTP) runs on the TS board reading the Data Carrier Detect (DCD) line of COM2
  • Add: TS Board is running an NTP server to define robot time
  • Software modules should be included
  • Rename "Arduino" -> "Motor Arduino"
  • Add "Power Arduino"
  • Fix: Wheel Encoders will be communicating over SPI

Software Issues & Improvements

Our code for this year is stored in Subversion and is accessible at https://svn.robojackets.org/igvc/2008. The laptop codebase will be written in C++.

Contributers to the laptop codebase should ensure that they are following our coding conventions.

Player/Stage:

We are using the Player/Stage robot server as the communication layer between our device drivers and our processing/controlling software modules.

As we've used the Player server, occasionally we've needed to patch it to better suit our needs. Below are our custom patches:

Candiii (V3.0)

At Competition

Mechanical Issues & Improvements

Candiii's body has remained essentially the same for the last 2 years.

Electrical Issues & Improvements

Candiii has two isolated power systems: one for the motors and one for the other electronics.

Other Electronics:

  • Camera
  • LIDAR
  • IMU
  • GPS
  • Compass
  • Motor encoders
  • Motor currents

Software Issues & Improvements

Localization and Mapping:

Controls:

  • PI-Lead control(?)
  • Joystick

Additional Information

Team Members

Gallery