Adding Tons of Horsepower – Findings from an STM Nucleo upgrade to a rover robot

DPRG hosts cool presentations each month during its regular membership meeting. These meetings and presentations are open to public and free to attend.

This month, long time DPRG member David Anderson will review recent upgrades made to his infamous "leaf blower" RCAT robot – which used an innovative replacement to the typical ‘gripper’ based solution commonly used in DPRGs Can-Can competition.

Dave has ported the robot's subsumption architecture and LMX, a light-weight cooperative round-robin multi-tasking executive, to an STM Nucleo F411 board. The result is a dramatic improvement in performance.

David will also highlight a custom printed circuit board, a joint effort between Ron Grant and David, that facilitates signal and power breakout for clean wiring layout. David will provide details on how to obtain a copy of the board.

As part of this review, Dave will also touch on the subsumption architecture used in this and many of his competition winning robots.

This will be a great chance to learn some new tips and tricks.

We hope to see you there. Everyone is welcome to attend.