Configuration and First Test

npereir1 2016-2017 Recue Robotics Challenge

This week, we finally got our CARLorado robot moving under Bluetooth control. Early in the week, we had all downloaded Android Studio and begun to make sense of the program and the sample codes we were given. It took a lot of google searching, but eventually we were able to make sense of all that was happening, and downloaded the …

Week 4 Hardware Work

npereir1 2016-2017 Recue Robotics Challenge

This week’s meeting was based around getting a second six wheeled robot up and running. As there was already a chassis built for this second six wheeled robot, our main goals for the meeting were disassembling and rewiring the motor system to comply with the already agreed upon design and wiring in all the sensors. The sensor platform we were …

First formal group meeting, week 3.

npereir1 2016-2017 Recue Robotics Challenge

This week, although week 3, was our first official meeting for the ground team of the UCI Rescue Robotics Challenge. We are a small team of 5, and all introduced ourselves and talked about our various backgrounds, and dove into what we would be working on throughout this quarter. Professor Krichmar brought out some of the robots from the previous …