At last, the long awaited CS blog is here! We have wrapped up the semester of pool tests, and are ready for the summer. Here is a look at what CS has been up to for the past 2 months! Prequalifying This past March, we prequalified our robot, Oogway, for competition! It was able to …
Welcome back to the CS blog! Last time, a major roadblock for many projects was the lack of pool time. In fact, many projects have not even been tested once! However, we are starting and continuing a variety of new projects. Pool Testing For the following projects, we encourage you to read the previous two …
Welcome to the first CS blog post of the semester! The team has been hard at work finishing up remaining items from last semester and has taken on some additional cleanup and refactoring of the code base. Due to winter weather, the team is coming off a long break from pool testing. Therefore, a lot …
There are multiple ends of the roads that are approaching for the CS team. It’s the end of the semester, so the end of some projects, and the end of my time providing you updates for this academic year. In the interest of maintaining a consistent storyline and brevity, most of my detailed updates will …
In pursuit of making our award-winning team video 28 Meetings Later, I will report on the progress CS has made in 6-7 meetings. Robot Issues Coming back from comp, we noticed approximately 6-7 issues with ‘ole reliable Oogway (and a few with Crush too). Here’s a list of some of them that we resolved: But …
As we’re in the final weeks of the spring 2025 semester, the CS team is hard at work preparing our robots for the RoboSub 2025 tasks. While a significant portion of our work takes place at the pool (check out our pool test updates), we’ve also been making progress on a few other important projects. …
The CS subteam has kicked off the spring semester with incredible momentum, and we’re excited to share some of the major milestones we’ve achieved. Over winter break, several team members migrated our Foxglove and Controls packages from ROS 1 to ROS 2. With these migrations complete, we have officially translated all of our key packages …
ROS2 Testing Improvements:To bolster our testing capabilities, we’ve started recording new MCAP files for individual testing scenarios. These will serve as valuable tools to validate our migrations and refine our functionality in a controlled environment. We’ve also used some tools to convert our previous ROS1 robot recordings to ROS2 recordings, which has been very useful …
Read more “ROS2 the Occasion: Progress on Our Migration Efforts”
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 …
During our first two meetings of the year, new members on the CS team were introduced to ROS via the Pizza Factory activity and got hands-on with Turtlesim – a simulated robot in a ROS environment. We then began guided coding sessions in Turtlesim to understand how to program with the ROS framework. Power Down, …
New Year, New Priorities Coming out of RoboSub 2024, the CS team experienced a change in leadership and already had several priorities lined up for the new year. The team split up into multiple groups to address these priorities. Max Lin & Hung Le stepped into their new roles as Co-Presidents and CS team leads. …
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