Last weekend marks a major milestone for the team. Crush, our mini-robot, officially entered the water with all its electrical systems and software fully mounted! This achievement reflects a year’s worth of collaboration, persistence, and innovation across all subteams. With Crush finally in the water, we can now begin testing its full capabilities, including performing …
This was a relatively short pool test focused on resolving the DVL issues we encountered during the previous pool test. Specifically, we suspected that the DVL’s X and Y axes were swapped, leading to incorrect state data. Before heading to the pool, Denton and I attempted to fix this by modifying the DVL settings via …
With the TeamTime session on February 13 and the task ideas for RoboSub 2025 released, our team now has a much clearer understanding of this year’s competition challenges. Many of the tasks, such as the coin flip, gate, style, bins, torpedoes, and octagon, remain largely unchanged from last year. However, there are two new additions: …
Since onboarding, our CS team has been diving into ROS2 and migrating our Python packages from ROS1 to ROS2. Will set a solid foundation by setting up initial configurations for our robosub-ros2 repository and porting over the first packages, including vectornav and data_pub. He also created clear examples for ROS2 subscribers and publishers which provide …
This is our last pool test of the semester. We spent the first half of the pool test testing out a few different issues with our robot: Our main goal for the second half of the pool test was to complete the prequal. We first used dead reckoning for both going around the marker and …
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