Good start to last month of integration

In less than four weeks Team Applied Robotics will be competing in Seattle! In the past month we have been busy taking apart vacuum cleaners, designing a custom gripper and nozzle, integrating electronics, segmentation algorithms for the vision system, robot frame design and a custom motion coordinator.

This is a sketch of our frame to mount the robot, designed to be easy to disassemble and transport:

The gripping action is shown below: