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We placed first in Static Judging!
The static judging portion of the competition took place today. We placed first overall out of fifteen teams. That gives us a points lead going into the qualifying round, as well as first choice of time slots for qualifying runs. Our qualifying runs are scheduled for Saturday (6/11) at 2:00 pm (EST) and Sunday (6/12) at 11:30 am (EST). This is the second straight year that we have placed first overall in static judging.
Posted Jun 10, 2011 8:36 PM by UM Autonomy
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We're Here!
We arrived last night and got right to work. We tested our PID calibration, and all appears to be well. We took our first two runs today and logged data to analyze our system tonight. We will also be rebalancing our hulls, and reworking our servo drivers to support multiple devices. We posted some pictures of these initial tests. Check them out and wish us luck.
Posted Jun 9, 2011 9:32 PM by UM Autonomy
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Last Weekend Before Competition!
We went out and bought supplies to construct a mock course and were able to test. It has been decided that our testing pool distorts the magnetic field of the compass which causes some unwanted blurring in our point cloud. We tried point cloud creation on land while moving and it looked amazing.We now have an occupancy grid that will be used mainly for obstacle avoidance, object detection is coming along, and the camera calibration is close but still needs some adjusting.Right now, we're getting everything ready for competition. The vans are reserved, the posters and powerpoints are being made, and things are being packed. Our first test run at competition will give us some incredibly useful ...
Posted Jun 6, 2011 11:29 AM by UM Autonomy
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Memorial Weekend
This past weekend we were finally able to test SLAM. Our state prediction and point cloud creation is looking good. We still need to tweak some SLAM parameters to group landmarks better and try feature detection in a more competition-like environment.We were also able to fix our issues with the IR camera driver as well as rigidly mount the IR camera. It now works well and reliably. We took the checkerboard pattern into the bright sunlight and were able to see it with the IR camera. This will allow us to calibrate the IR camera with the Hokuyo. : )This weekend we constructed a ball grabber that works very well. There is still work to be done on controlling ...
Posted May 31, 2011 1:57 PM by UM Autonomy
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May 25th - IR Camera Wired Up and Working
Today we wired up the FLIR PathFindIR to our system and adapted our camera driver to work with it. We still need to find the right positioning for it and lock it in place and then calibrate to the LIDAR but, it looks like it detects heat very well. This awesome IR camera from FLIR will have no trouble detecting the hot target.Here's a picture of a team member with a soldering iron.
Posted May 26, 2011 7:26 AM by UM Autonomy
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