The fourth sprint of the year was plagued by illness, ramping up classes, and…
It’s a new year of OARS, and with it comes lots of new people and new projects!
Here’s an overview of what Mechanical hopes to accomplish this semester!
Sprint 5
1/24–2/7
Here’s an overview of what Electrical and Software hope to accomplish this semester!
With Damn Yankee successfully revived, rechristened “Git Boat,” running on ROS, and…
Team update
Phase 2: Off-Season Training
Sprint 4, December 6 — December 18
The overall goal of this sprint was to complete a full water test of Git Boat (Our new name for Damn Yankee) and start researching and…
Sprint 3, November 8— December 6
Note: this sprint was especially long because we had a week-long break in the middle of it for Thanksgiving and it was better to maintain momentum…
Backdated: October 9, 2017
Welcome back to the Olin Aquatic Robotic Systems blog! We’re starting off the 2017–18 school year, and we’re also starting on a new project plan! Here are the details:
February 11, 2017
We like robots, but we don’t like out of control robots. To ensure we never have an…
January 3, 2017
As we build a software base for our robot, we regularly add robot behaviors which want to tell the robot where to go. However, with only one boat and multiple behaviors trying to direct it, we need something to resolve disagreements…