FIRA 2019 South Korea- Hurocup Kid Size

After the success of 2018's competiton, we participated in FIRA 2019 at Changwon, South Korea.

This was a really great experience! I learned a lot this year. There were more teams and everybody improved comparing to last year, which made the competition harder. Teamwork and leadership were the skills that I definitely practiced more this year as I was now on charge of the kid-size side of the team. The principal challenge was the hardware side, in robotics your code may work, but there are more variables that may make tour program succesful or not like camera calibration, surface roughness, servos and expected target sizes. Also practiced how to change a servo in 10 minutes under pressure 😁

We moved to a shared platform, which meant to handle two different robots using the same code and framework (Robotis-Op3-Framework in ROS) while making it easier to compile by moving the events to Python. I was involved in the design of the architecture and tasks to reach our goals, in addition to the programming of some of the events. That meant more collaboration across the adult and kid size teams.

Also improved in OpenCV, Python and ROS as after a year and a bit more guidance I could understand more of how everything works. This is our qualification video

As Kid-size team, we achieved:

• Spartan Race - 1st place
• United Soccer - 2nd Place
• Triple Jump - 3th Place
• Basketball - 4th Place
• Marathon - 5th Place
• Mini-DRC/Teleop - 5th Place
• All-round - Fourth Place

We also got an article written by UManitoba press.