2020-21 Season Recap

If you were to pass by Gross Hall on any typical Saturday, you could expect to smell the familiar scent of a dozen pies’ worth of Domino’s pizzas wafting from the Foundry. In other words, Duke Robotics was in session! Our engineers

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FRC Mentorship 2018-2020

FRC Mentorship 2018-2020

For the past two years, our club has been working closely with a local FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team, Team 6496. We, Vincent Wang and Maverick Chung, have been mentoring and supporting the high school team since our freshman year, teaching them

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Fall 2016 Wrap-up

Fall 2016 Wrap-up

We began our year with Bot Battle as a way to introduce underclassmen to both members of the club and the robotics fundamentals we work with. Partnering with the Innovation Co-Lab, we prepared kits, held office hours, and led workshops covering topics from

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Bot Battle 2016

Bot Battle 2016

In 2016, we hosted the first Bot Battle competition designed to get students excited about autonomous vehicles and robotics. The competition took place from 9/24/16 to 10/2/16. Twelve teams came out and competed- each building an autonomous mobile robot with different strategies for

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5/2/16 – More Tests

We have finally mounted the DVL, fresh back from Teledyne after receiving a tune-up. We are continuing to fine tune the controls in a series of recent pool tests. Next step, finishing up acoustics and testing the system on board.

4/18/16 – Full Integration Testing

Last friday we executed our first fully-integrated test. This involved carefully sealings all the pressure hulls, loading up the golf cart with the robot, the support frame, the ethernet reel, buckets of supplies, laptops, and four people. It took us two trips to actually get

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4/8/16 – E-Social Robot Unveiling

This Friday, we hosted Pratt’s E-Social. This is basically a free-beer-and-pizza that our school helps sponsor every Friday for engineering students. We used it as an opportunity to unveil our new robot for the first time to the community. Reception was positive! Next time: better

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4/7/16 – Potting Moulds

We are in the process of potting our cables to their respective Seaconn/Subconn counterparts. This process involves soldering the wires end to end, securing the connected cables in the 3D printed moulds we made, and pour potting epoxy into the moulds. They take 24

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3/22/16 – Frame Assembly

3/22/16 – Frame Assembly

The sub is coming together! We have mounted the horizontal thrusters and attached the pressure hulls to the frame. Mechanical is now working on attaching the hull connectors. We aim to do our first swim test next week and begin tuning our PID controllers.