Gael Force prides itself on its innovation and ability to constantly create. We also believe in sharing and cooperative development. Because of this, we want to share all the assistive products that we’ve created. On this page, you will find a number of different resources that we use and want others to use in order to improve their team and robot. We’ve left all of our projects open-source so others are able to contribute to them and learn from them. We hope our team’s creations can be of use to others.
Each of our teams has a heavy focus on its documentation. We created build guides for our robots so that we know the methods we used to create our robots and also know how to recreate our bot if need be. It helps us reflect and learn from each bot build and we want to offer our knowledge to other teams. By reading through our build guides, teams will be able to learn how we built our bots and also be able to utilize some of the mechanisms we created on their own designs. We also hope to hear feedback from teams that look through our build guides so that we can develop our designs.
You can view the Build Guide here.
In addition to documentation of our physical robot, we track the software we developed. This is not just the code that goes into our robot, but a detailed notebook that looks at the assistive software we created. They discuss the development of bot code, simulations, tools, and explain the code in depth.
You can view the Programming Binder here.
Our primary software assistance tools are our simulations. We’ve created accurate simulations of this year’s Tower Takeover challenge. We created a third-person, 3D simulation to provide our drivers with practice when they are unable to gain direct access to the field. It is designed to be as realistic as possible so that the driver can get as close to the real driving experience. In addition to the 3D simulation, we also created a 2D, top-down simulation. Its purpose is for communication and planning. This simulation was designed to be as portable as possible and can run on very low-end hardware. This allows basically any member to use the simulation. It is used to formulate new plans and communicate strategies to team members and other teams. Both of these simulations are attached and we hope you are fully able to utilize both of them.
Our Simulation can be found here.