Documentation of current state 2024
Based on the ROS nodes to be executed for the different tasks, clear and thorough documentation should be generated, including the purpose of the area in the service robot and further explanation of the technologies used, with examples.
This is the overview of the robot and the area:
Achievements from 2024
This year, after being accepted to participate in RoboCup 2024 held in Eindhoven, Netherlands, the team focused in developing a robust and reliable set of software modules, tailored to the specific needs for the tasks for the updated rulebook. This approach, had the purpose of showcasing a functional robot for both the Mexican Robotics Tournament (April; Monterrey, Mexico) and the RoboCup (July; Eindhoven, Netherlands).
The robot was renamed as FRIDA (Friendly Robotic Interactive Domestic Assistant), an acronym reflecting the purporse of the robot, and the name in reference to Mexican culture.
With the vast knowledge acquired during the international tournament, the team defined the new objectives for the remainder of the year to be: an increased focus in research and literature review, and centralized and offline refactorization of the software and systems.
Integration
Software Architecture
A new empty repository was created, alongside separate repositories for each area, added as submodules of the first. This allowed us to work of different branches of development in the central computational unit (Jetson AGX inside robot).
Every submodule was containerized, using Docker, to ease the installation process and dependency management.
Task manager
A new package named task_manager was created to handle the flow of each task using general python submodules per area.
There's a Python ROS node for each task, following a state machine architecture.
Documentation of current state 2024
Based on the ROS nodes to be executed for the different tasks, clear and thorough documentation should be generated, including the purpose of the area in the service robot and further explanation of the technologies used, with examples.
This is the overview of the robot and the area:
Achievements from 2024
This year, after being accepted to participate in RoboCup 2024 held in Eindhoven, Netherlands, the team focused in developing a robust and reliable set of software modules, tailored to the specific needs for the tasks for the updated rulebook. This approach, had the purpose of showcasing a functional robot for both the Mexican Robotics Tournament (April; Monterrey, Mexico) and the RoboCup (July; Eindhoven, Netherlands).
The robot was renamed as FRIDA (Friendly Robotic Interactive Domestic Assistant), an acronym reflecting the purporse of the robot, and the name in reference to Mexican culture.
With the vast knowledge acquired during the international tournament, the team defined the new objectives for the remainder of the year to be: an increased focus in research and literature review, and centralized and offline refactorization of the software and systems.
Integration
Software Architecture
A new empty repository was created, alongside separate repositories for each area, added as submodules of the first. This allowed us to work of different branches of development in the central computational unit (Jetson AGX inside robot).
Every submodule was containerized, using Docker, to ease the installation process and dependency management.
Task manager
A new package named task_manager was created to handle the flow of each task using general python submodules per area.
There's a Python ROS node for each task, following a state machine architecture.