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General Interest

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Outline

Introduction to RoboJackets

Team Introductions

• BattleBots
• RoboNav
• RoboCup
• RoboRacing
• RoboWrestling

Outreach

Robot in 3 Days

Behind The Scenes

Training

How to Join

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Our mission is to

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promote,

the field of robotics.

educate,

and advance

Learn by doing

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Mentorship

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Our History

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Timeline

RoboWrestling

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BattleBots

2000 2005 2010 2015 2020

RoboNav

RoboCup

RoboRacing

We compete across the globe…

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Where do we meet?

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RoboJackets in Industry

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RoboJackets Founders

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RoboJackets in Academia

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This Year

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Battlebots

John Matthews

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What is Battlebots?

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Our 30lb Veteran Battlebots

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Anxietii

Chonkiv

Our 12lb Veteran Battlebots

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Cherri

Galaxi

Our New Battlebots

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Pepperoni

30lb Drum Spinner

Wacki

12lb Hammer Saw

Lotteri

12lb Modular Grappler/Beater Bar

Pastrami

3lb Drum Spinner

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CAD Modeled Sub-Systems

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Skills You Can Learn

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• Engineering Design
• CAD
• DFM/DFA
• Finite Element Analysis
• Failure Mode Analysis
• Part Drawings
• Prototyping/Machining
• Fundamental Electronics
• Dynamic Simulation
• Research/Experimentation

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Research Division

• Quantify simulation parameters
• Explore manufacturing
• Develop materials and composites

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Competitions

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• Design, machine, build, and compete a 3lb bot over the course of 1 year

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• Mentored by current members

3lb Combat Program

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Our Structure

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Meeting Times

When do we meet?

Thursday OR Friday, 7:00 - 9:00 PM

@ Student Competition Center

BattleBots Interest Meetings:

Wednesday, Sept. 10, 6:30 - 8:00 PM @ Skiles 271

Thursday, Sept. 11, 6:30 - 8:00 PM @ Skiles 170

First New Member Meetings:

Thursday, Sept. 18 OR Friday, Sept. 19

7:00 - 9:00 PM @ Student Competition Center

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RoboNav

Dylan Winer

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What is RoboNav?

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Curiosity (2011)

Spirit & Opportunity (2004)

Perseverance (2020)

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Wallii

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Arm Configuration

Science Configuration

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Autonomous Navigation

Equipment Servicing

Science

Extreme Delivery

4 Missions

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Mechanical

Electrical

Software

Science

Drone

Five Subteams

Mechanical

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Electrical

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Mini Rover Challenge!

• Mechanical + Electrical
• New Member Training/Onboarding
• Simpler version of URC
• Split into teams of ~8-10
• Mechanical: CAD a Mini Rover + fabrication training on the side
• Electrical: Hands-on workshops + mini rover electrical assembly

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Software

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Software Subteams/Projects!

• Specific Training Curriculum
• C++, ROS2, Robotics Fundamentals
• University Rover Challenge and Software System Overviews
• Weekly projects involving robotics algorithms and simulation

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• Projects Divided into Software Groups
• Autonomous Navigation
• Drivetrain controls
• Arm control
• Teleoperation/Communications

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Science

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Drone

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Why RoboNav

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Meetings

• When do we meet?
• Sundays: 4-7 PM @ SCC
• Wednesdays: 6:30-9 PM @ SCC (except software)
• Returning software members: Fridays: 4-7 PM @ TBD (on-campus)
• New software members follow RJ trainings
• First New Member Meetings:
• Sunday, 9/7: 4-6 PM @ Instructional Center 111
• Wednesday, 9/10: 6:30-8 PM @ Van Leer C457

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RoboCup

Sanat Dhanyamraju

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We play soccer!

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Multi-Agent Autonomous Robotics

RoboCup Federation

1st in the US, 4th in the World!

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📍Eindhoven, Netherlands (2024)

This could be you at Korea!

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📍Salvador, Brazil (2025)

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Mechatronics

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Chipper =>

<= Dribbler

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Mechatronics

• CAD and Manufacturing
• 3D Printing and Water Jetting
• Consistency Testing, Simulation, Modeling, & Controls Design + Analysis
• Working under space constraints
• Ownership

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Electrical

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Electrical

• Circuit and PCB Design (KiCad)
• High Voltage, High Capacitance
• 250V, 4000uF!!
• PCB Assembly & Testing/Verification
• Collaborative Work through GitHub
• Digital and Analog Designs
• Custom BLDC Motor Driving System
• Custom RF Radio System

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control board v3.4

kicker board v3.3

Software

Technical

• Motion Planning/Control
• Multi-agent, adversarial AI
• C++/ROS

Industry Skills

• GitHub
• Ubuntu/Command-Line
• Agile method

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Software

2026 Goals:

• Improved Motion Control
• Multi-Robot Coordinators
• Better Obstacle Avoidance

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Firmware

• Real-time firmware using Rust
• Bridge High-level software with Low-level electrical
• Motor Control and Sensor Fusion
• Low-Latency embedded software

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Firmware

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Training Program

• New members complete tutorial projects
• 5-8 weeks
• Learn your subteam
• Make a contribution
• At your own pace
• Attend both meetings once complete

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Meetings

• When do we meet?
• Sunday: 7:00-9:30 pm, SCC Classroom (All Members)
• Tuesday: 7:00-10:00 pm, SCC Shop (Returning Members)
• First New Member Meeting:
• Sunday, September 7th from 7:00-9:30 pm, SCC Classroom

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RoboRacing

Justin Gardiner

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Competitions

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Need for Speed

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Race custom autonomous go-karts

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Goal: L4 Autonomy

Competition - AKS

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Rigatoniv

Sub-Teams!

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Software

Electrical

Mechanical

Software

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• Largest part of team
• Goal: autonomously race around the track
• Developing completely new stack!
• ROS2 and OpenCV
• Path planning & localization
• Nvidia Jetson and Isaac ROS2

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Electrical

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• Custom PCB design and assembly
• Remote Control Board
• Emergency Stop
• Firmware
• Controls w/ ESCs
• Sensor Interfacing (UART/CAN)
• Networking & Communication (TCP/UDP)
• Power distribution
• Main fuse is 250A @ 48V !

Mechanical

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• Currently smallest part of team!
• CAD and 3d printing
• Working directly on kart
• Steering
• Braking

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New Member Project: Micromouse

• **New program
• Designing, building, and coding “mouse” to solve maze as fast as possible
• All first-year new members (and anyone else interested)
• Learn relevant skills hands-on from the start
• PCB Design
• Implement PID for motors
• Using graph-based algorithms to find shortest path to goal

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Meetings

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New Member Info Meeting

• Wednesday Sept. 10th at 6:30 PM EST in Skiles 255

When/How Do Usually We Meet?

• Sundays: 4-7 PM EST (SCC)
• Mondays: 7-9:30 PM EST (SCC) **
• Thursday: 7-8:30PM EST (Van Leer) **

** Micromouse work days!

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(Part of) The Team!

RoboWrestling

Xander Riddle

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What we do: (in a nutshell)

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What is RoboWrestling?

• Autonomous Robotic Sumo Wrestling
• Push opponent out of Dohyo
• What this entails:
• Real Time Sensor Detection
• Precise Mechanical Design/ Fabrication
• Outthinking our opponent with epic software strategies

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What you will be working on

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An ode to our old bots…Gucci & Kirbi

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Competitions!

• All-Japan Robot Sumo Tournament (Tokyo, Japan)
• International Grand Finals
• US Representative 3kg Auto

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• RSM Challenge Internacional (Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil)
• National competition
• Largest Sumo Competition in Latin America (over 350 participants)

• Maker Faire (Orlando, Florida)
• Beat UCF
• See lots of cool random stuff

Us when @ competition

• All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament (AJRST) International Grand Finals
• United States Representative

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Electrical

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Custom new PCBs for every bot

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Learn:

• Kicad
• Github
• Soldering

*Note: DO NOT DO THIS!!!

Mechanical

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New bot designs every year!

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Learn:

• CAD Designing
• Machining
• 3D Printing

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Software

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Sumo bots are Autonomous! (mostly)

Learn:

• Arduino Programming
• C++
• PlatformIO
• Github

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Your code has real world consequences!

Leadership

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Rudra Goel Joe Sung Seth Shi Teppei Fukuto

New Projects for the year

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This could be you… but better!

Meetings

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• RoboWrestling New Member/Info Meeting
• Tuesday, September 9th : 6:00-8:00pm
• Skiles 171
• Show up if you are interested!
• When do we typically meet?
• Thursday (SCC): 7:00-9:00 pm
• Cookout: 9:00-9:30 pm
• Sunday (SCC): 1:00-4:00 pm

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Outreach

Ian LaMont

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What is RJ Outreach?

An Organization-Wide Effort? Yes!

A Way to Promote, Educate�and Advance? Yes!

A great place to volunteer? Yes!

A way to get to know other�RJ members? Yes!

A way to get free food? Yep, that too.

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How We Get Involved

• Volunteering at Comps.
• Hosting Comps
• FRC Kickoff
• Design Reviews
• Shop Tours
• Event tabling
• ...and more!

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What can I do?

• Join #outreach on RJ slack�
• Volunteer!�
• Meet others!�
• Upcoming Outreach meetings?
• Want to organize outreach?

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Robot in 3 Days

Deep Patel

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What we do: (in a nutshell)

• Create a full FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) robot while documenting any common errors, creating designs that work well as well as being a role model team….In just 72 hours

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Ri3D? What’s that?

• 72 Hours of Rapid Prototyping
• Shifts to ensure everyone is healthy
• A full production – the whole event should feel like a show
• 2 Robots:
• Everybot Team: A budget robot using the kit of parts focused on MCC (Minimum competitive concept)
• Competition Team: Swerve Drive robot focused on inspiring teams to elevate their play to higher performance positions such as alliance captains.

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Design

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• One of the most important parts of the Ri3D itself

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• Innovative, effective, and simple to create designs

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• Easy for FRC teams to create

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• Software: Onshape

Media

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The means to success

• Bring the most impact to the FIRST community
• Create a “show” that guides viewers through what they are seeing

Deliverables

• Strategy Guide
• Chief Delphi blog posts
• Build guides & prototyping
• 72 hour live stream

Need

• Camera Crew
• Good Video Editors

Prototyping & Build

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Prototyping

• As soon as kickoff commences, a majority of our time will go towards discussions, sketches, ideas, and CAD.
• Design: basic napkin prototypes

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Build

• Put together the drivebase before the event for practice
• Starts building and testing our prototypes ASAP!

Controls (Software / Electrical)

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The Brains of the Operation

• Electrical
• Have a working drivetrain wired-up �before kickoff.
• Responsible for the power delivery, �motor controllers, sensors, etc.
• Experienced members to wire
• the robot quickly with each design
• and iteration of the robots.

Controls (Software / Electrical)

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The Brains of the Operation

• Software: Java
• Should have drivebase working before the event,
• Classes implemented for common subsystems

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• Autonomous:
• Should have a basic auto ready
• Should be easy for FRC teams to implement

Field Build

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• Before the event, FIRST releases a team version Field Build materials list. When kickoff starts, this

team sets up the field.

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• Important to be precise because

otherwise our measurements

could be off

Machining

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• These crews will be on standby during the event in the event that anyone needs anything machined at all.

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• There is extra training involved for these members. They should be trained on everything in the SCC.

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• Required to be RoboJackets members.

How to get Involved

• Need to be an active RoboJackets member (exception for media)
• Attend RoboJackets training for your position (Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, or Software)
• Attend our team meetings (these will be sent out during the fall semester and are not repeating like other teams)

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Interest Form

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Event is January 10-12, right after FRC Kickoff at GT

Behind the Scenes

Dylan Park, James Vogt, Angelina Rodriguez & Brooklyn Heath

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Information Technology

• Server and workstation administration
• Identity and access management
• Application support
• Network engineering
• Web App & Public-facing Site Development

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Mobile App Development

• iOS (New! Developers wanted!)
• Android: Kotlin*
• Early experimentation with cross-platform using React Native
• Supporting contactless attendance and dues payments over Square
• Goal to increase maintainability

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Web App Development

• Supports organization of dues, merchandise, and travel plans
• Helps collect attendance and support subteam workflows
• Stack:
• Laravel
• Vue.js
• MySQL
• Interested in helping?
• Contact James Vogt:
• james.vogt@robojackets.org

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Web App Interest Form

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Public Relations and Media

• Design and produce merchandise
• Gain experience in Graphic Design and Video Editing
• Learn about industry-used tools like Davinci Resolve
• Work on large-scale Live Stream Productions
• Help grow RoboJackets’ brand across the internet and the GT Community

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PR and Media Interest Form

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Finance Team

Brooklyn Heath | Treasurer

• Help manage club finances
• Sponsorship acquisition, large-scale budgets, etc.

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Training

Mechanical: Teppei Fukuto, Cord Morgan, Will Hoffman

Electrical: Braiden Anderson & Alex Sareh

Firmware: Nathaniel Wert

Software: Mukilan Karthikeyan

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Training Disciplines

First Meetings: Week of September 15th

You don’t need ANY PRIOR EXPERIENCE to join any particular discipline!

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Mechanical Training

• 6 Weeks of Training
• Design Principles
• Mechanics & Materials
• Design for Manufacturing
• Computer-aided Design
• Autodesk Inventor 2025
• Manufacturing
• Utilizing shop machines + tools

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Meeting Times (Only attend 1/week!):�Tuesdays 6:30-7:30p (Skiles 271)�Wednesdays 6:30-7:30p (East Arch. 123)

Electrical Training

• Shared
• Electrical basics
• Arduino/circuit prototyping
• Debugging
• Soldering
• Electrical
• Circuit board design and hardware
• KiCad
• 6 weeks of training
• First Meeting: 9/15, 6:30 - 8 ,(Boggs B9)
• Rest are in Skiles Monday & Tuesdays. Refer to cal

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Firmware Training

• Schedule
• Week 1 - 9/15* or 9/19 - General Arduino + Digital IO
• Week 2 - 9/22 or 9/26 - Analog IO + Interrupts
• Week 3 - 9/29 or 10/3 - Communication Protocols
• Week 4 - 10/6 or 10/10 - Driver Design
• Week 5 - 10/13 or 10/17 - Recap + Special Topics
• Location
• Mason 3132 (except 9/15)
• 9/15 - Howey N210

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Software Training

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• Structure:
• Short Lecture + Project in person

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• Syllabus: https://github.com/RoboJackets/software-training

�Trainings Start Sep 15th!�When: Monday & Thursday 6:30 - 8pm

Where:G021 MoSe Building

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Software Training

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• Practical guide to robotics
• C++ basics
• Writing ROS2 nodes
• Using CMake
• Hands-on programming labs

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• Also covers important general software engineering skills like…
• Linux, containerization, VMs
• Git, DevOps
• Autonomy, Optimization
• And many more!
• Only 8 weeks of training! (+ Special Topics)

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RSVP Here

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How to Join

Zane Pressley

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How to Join

1. Attend a General Interest Meeting
2. Talk to team leadership in the following Q&A
3. Team Interest Meetings!
4. Attend meetings and trainings
• Showing up to team meetings is the best way to make sure you stay involved
5. Pay RoboJackets dues (Sept. 19)
• $65 for a semester or $120 for the year
• Contact us if you have any financial limitations

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Team Interest Meeting Dates

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• Battle Bots:
• Interest Meeting #1: Wednesday, 9/10 @ 6:30 - 8:00 pm | Skiles 271
• Interest Meeting #2: Thursday, 9/11 @ 6:30 - 8:00 pm | Skiles 170
• RoboCups:
• Interest Meeting: Sunday, 9/7 @ 7:00 - 10:00 pm | Student Competition Center
• RoboNav:
• Interest Meeting #1: Sunday, 9/7 @ 4:00 - 6:00 pm | Instructional Center 111
• Interest Meeting #2: Wednesday, 9/10 @ 6:30 - 8:00 pm | Van Leer C457
• RoboRacing:
• Interest Meeting #1: Wednesday, 9/10 @ 6:30 - 8:00 pm | Skiles 255
• Interest Meeting #2: Thursday, 9/11 @ 7:15 - 9:00 pm | Van Leer C457
• RoboWrestling:
• Interest Meeting: Tuesday, 9/9 @ 6:15 - 8:00 pm | Skiles 171 & 268

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How to Join - Links

• BattleBots
• https://forms.gle/A8uV1HSwT7wFjSkN9
• RoboNav
• https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScflFEBs00-xgjs61vJZA1e6QJasYiY15E0VZ7K6WGeSrw16g/viewform
• RoboCup
• https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSyPN2KXvPRJbrwO9ETV159g06IB4PKfXDbbvADNUY51Dlhg/viewform?usp=sf_link
• RoboRacing
• https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPDaW-8LoZmomcPqFeFhhMK74xu4RdA-mC8bsRlbDX8pfdqg/viewform
• RoboWrestling
• https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScL7cUBLCcAtFSsKaBYDv9rJuA__G4Qpz2f_pbnYK2WzryN1g/viewform

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When We Meet

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Bold** = New Member Meeting

Only 1 team meeting + 1 training meeting necessary

New Member Trainings (Starts 9/15)

Refer to https://robojackets.org/calendar/

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Only 1 team meeting + 1 training meeting necessary

Helpful Links

Our Website: https://robojackets.org/

Our Wiki page: https://wiki.robojackets.org/

Slack: https://slack.robojackets.org

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/robojackets

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Questions?

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New Member Interest Form

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Thank you!

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