Pool Tests 02/07/2026 & 02/08/2026

Welcome back to our pool testing blogs! This blog will serve as updates for both tests. 02/07/2026 Acoustics On Saturday, we focused on collecting long-overdue acoustics data for the acoustics team. We originally had some issues with the Logic software and our data collection scripts. Due to time constraints, we decided to use Logic 1 …

Pool Test 01/18/26

Welcome back to another action-packed, thrilling pool test! As has become tradition for the past few months, we only brought Oogway to the pool test, with Crush still in quite a discombobulated state. As such, we had an ambitious list of features to test. Prequalify The first thing we tried today (erm, actually this was …

Pool Tests 06/07/2025, 06/21/2025, 06/22/2025

After a short break, we have resumed pool testing with the summer pool test crew! Throughout the summer, we plan to test on Saturdays and Sundays leading up to the competition. We will be focusing on getting much-needed testing in for Crush and preparing other items before August. 06/07/2025 First day back to summer pool …

Pool Test 04/12/2025 & 04/13/2025

04/12/2025 Oogway: After several weeks of frustrating issues with state, Denton finally fixed the issue by resetting the pose0_differential and odom0_differential fields in Oogway’s oogway.yaml config file in sensor_fusion to true, which reverts them to their original settings. Combined with the earlier fix to the DVL coordinate frame, these changes restored proper state behavior. To …

Pool Tests 04/05/2025 & 04/06/2025

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 …

Pool Test 03/30/2025

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 …