The crew of Serenity will take the field together for the first time on Saturday. They seem pretty excited.
All of our robots posing for a picture!
The field has been flattened and the lines have gone on. Now we can start prepping for the US Open this coming weekend. This years field is essentially two of last year’s put next to each other. That’s a lot of new things for our robots to see.
Today marked the beginning of the US Open. With help from Bowdoin facilities and housekeeping, the field for this year’s US Open has been rolled out. As you can see from the picture, there are quite a few wrinkles. Over the next few days the carpet will flatten (maybe get a stream cleaning) and the four sections will be joined together. The fifth section, in the background of the picture, will serve as a practice field. More updates to come!
Someone (aka Professor Chown) noted that the blog has been pretty empty lately. Here’s what we’ve been doing:
1. New robots! Our newest teammates are Nao H25s with working hands! Now that we also have Kaylee, Inara, Vera, and Simon, we have almost all of Serenity’s crew on our team.
Kaylee, Inara, Vera, and Simon!
- Kaylee poses for a closeup.
2. New goals! The league rules changed, so our goals for this year look like…
New goal for this year's US Open
They’re bigger than last year’s goals and now have black nets, which is great for vision. Also, these nets won’t get tangled on lost robots who want to hang out in the goal. The field itself will be much bigger as well, with five robots per team.
3. New code architecture! Well, almost. Our message passing architecture is still a work in progress, but we’ll have it up and running for the US Open:
Almost there...
The US Open starts Friday, April 19th here at Bowdoin. We’re pretty excited to finally try out all of our new things.
A bit belated, but here’s a link to our family weekend videos. The lighting conditions were terrible, but we still managed to see very well and played some pretty decent soccer.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJOPWrClEzSmeEJ7tXAmcccCYMt31R8yi
Enjoy
Check out our code at github.com/northern-bites/nbites or click the wiki tab to get some more information!
Meeting Wednesday 8pm Searles 120. We will have food!
I realize that we still have a bunch of video to post, in the meantime, here are some classics to keep you busy.
Drew Carey visits RoboCup in 2006 and the Northern Bites win money.
CNN coverage of RoboCup 2007 and an interview with Chown.
Some highlights from our world championship in 2007.
Discovery Channel Story on RoboCup 2009.
