Start Up

RoboMaster Competition Team in Penn State University was set up in the Fall Semester in 2017. Initially, there are only ten people in this small team and the lack of the membership and funding prevented us from forming a regular club in the PSU. However, the team chose to focus on the RoboMaster Competition and they successfully invited Prof. Timothy Wheeler in EECS Department as our competition advisor. In the November of 2017, the team received the invitation letter from the DJI which means the success of the qualification of the 2018 RoboMaster Competition.

Parcipitation

Machining the screw-hole very carefully, tapping on the keyboard and modifying the C code is the daily life for each team members. The project of building these vehicle robots are much more difficult than we imaged. However, in the period of building these robots, we have learned a lot of knowledge in Mechanical Engineering, Embedded System and Computer Science which them cannot learn from the class. The whole team even used this chance to enroll in the Senior Design Course in Electrical Engineering and successfully passed it. After four months of designing and building, the summer break came to them. The team took all the things to Shenzhen and continued to prepare the competition there.

Shenzhen, China — Summer 2018

The competition was much contested than we imaged before. In the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center, fourteen international teams met together and each of the team tried their best to defeat their opponents. Some of them are from Washington University, Virginia Tech, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, and Purdue University etc. Every team brought their best-designed robots and made the competition more and more competitive. Finally, after the two-day tournament, we defeated Washington University, University of Alberta and Purdue University and got the sixth place in the international-region-competition.

After the Beginning

In the new semester after the summer break, the original team members came back to PSU and decided to build a technical club to gain more attention and more people who have strong interests in the engineering area. The club aims to offer more projects or competition related to robots and build a new platform for the students in PSU to ‘Make Things’. The club welcomes all the passionate students and the one who has ‘Great Things’ to do!