RM competition robot: omni-wheel chassis

An omni-wheel competition robot built to maneuver quickly in tight spaces. It also works as a base for teaching and further development. The team did the complete hardware, the chassis and gimbal mechanics, and the embedded software.

Black competition robot with number '3' armor plates lit by red LED strips, omni wheels and a gimbal on top, against a pink wall
Competition robot with armor plates lit

Tech stack

Chassis
Omni-wheel, omnidirectional mobility
Motor control
Multi-CAN motor control, CAN bus
Compute
Main controller with high-performance compute board
Power
Custom power distribution
Firmware
Kinematics, sensor fusion, RTOS-based task scheduling
Mechanics
Custom chassis and gimbal

What we built

  • Complete hardware design: multi-CAN motor control, power distribution, main controller, external sensor interfaces, compute-board integration
  • Mechanical design of chassis and gimbal
  • Embedded software: CAN bus control, kinematics, sensor fusion, RTOS task scheduling

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