02-19-2009 05:21 PM

nahstobor

Re: pic: 1885 iLITE Robobotics -- 'MoonLITE'

Looks much improved from scrimmage, I hope you guys fixed all the problems. To bad your not going to VCU this year.

02-19-2009 06:11 PM

NorviewsVeteran

Re: pic: 1885 iLITE Robobotics -- 'MoonLITE'

See you in DC- and make sure you have good drivers.

And what happened to "The Robocats"?

02-19-2009 08:44 PM

lynca

Re: pic: 1885 iLITE Robobotics -- 'MoonLITE'

Java Radar display sounds awesome ! Do you have a whitepaper or more documentation about what type of sensors you are using ?

02-19-2009 10:59 PM

Phyrxes

Re: pic: 1885 iLITE Robobotics -- 'MoonLITE'

Glad to hear you guys got things sorted out after Saturdays Scrimmage, look forward to seeing it in action in DC.

02-19-2009 11:53 PM

JesseK

Re: pic: 1885 iLITE Robobotics -- 'MoonLITE'

The driver has worked closely with the programming team and has requested several 'modes' to drive in. He could be a fighter pilot with the way he drives this thing on an open field...

We rebranded under the name iLITE so we could have an umbrella for all of the FLL & FTC teams we support. We also support nationwide SEAPerch training, including curriculum creation for entire school districts. We actually just had our local county's SEAPerch brain trust meeting tonight. Fun stuff there.

There's no documentation on the display, but sometime in the future we might put a paper out. The mentors are all software engineers, and all but one of us work on Java displays for real-time integrated data display systems ... so of course we had to teach the students something about that once we learned about the data we get from the cRIO. The driver, I, and the lead programming mentor came up with the requirements for a simple display. The programming mentor created a framework, and the students took off from there. They even created data to drive the display, even though it also runs with real data from the camera. The clip was posed with the student software lead, though I didn't ask her permission to put her pic up so I clipped the display instead. Needless to say, I was pretty speechless when I saw how far the students got with it. It even shows the state of each linkage module, which really gets some action when we're driving around.

And yes, we'll miss Chantilly at VCU Always a pleasure working with you guys. Good luck this year!

02-20-2009 12:27 PM

T3_1565

Re: pic: 1885 iLITE Robobotics -- 'MoonLITE'

Is there any video of it in action? I would love to see the drive (obviously) and the paddlewheel working. I had come up with something similar for shooting that didn't go through with my team, so I would like to see if it works well lol.

02-24-2009 08:00 AM

JesseK

Re: pic: 1885 iLITE Robobotics -- 'MoonLITE'

Video compilation uploaded:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ihPYKEKRs

Gah, youtube annihilated the bitrate so everything's dark ... I'll get a better res tonight.