RoboCup Electrical 2014

The Electrical System

The electrical system is all the electrical hardware and firmware used to operate the 2013-2014 RoboCup team. It includes the host hardware, the wireless link, and the electronics for each robot.

Current Activities

• Kicker Design 2014
• RFID Robot Indicator 2014
• Robot Garage

Systems

On-Board Control

• Microcontroller
• FPGA
• Firmware

Kicker

• Kicker Electronics

Base Station

• Base Station

Sensors

• IR Break-Beam Ball Sensor
• Inertial Measuring Unit (IMU)

Power

• Power Supplies and Batteries

Miscellaneous

• RFID Robot Indicator
• Robot Garage

Some Ideas

• On-board speedgate
• On-board "vision" (low latency sensor set for basic tracking)
• Power switch replacement
• Parallel battery packs
• Make stuff easier to be transported safely (e.g. to competitions)...