The goal of the project is to build a fully autonomous robot that can drive around the field, check in at the desired locations to open the shooting area, correctly aim at the open shooting area (bucket) to shoot the balls and refill the balls from COW depot station as necessary. The correct magnetic frequency needs to be reported back to the construction site manager for checking in. There are IR signals of different frequencies emitting around the field to help the robot identify its locations and the bucket locations. The game logistics was communicated wirelessly using Serial Peripheral Interface protocol.
We were given specific drive motors and microcontroller (TIVA C Series Launchpad) to work with. For complete game descriptions and rules, please see the attached document. |