Robocup 2019 Sydney & 2018 Montreal

Participating in Robocup Junior was the experience that solidified my passion for robotics. I was very fortunate to represent my school and Singapore in the international stage.

Hwa Chong Infocomm & Robotics Society (HCIRS)

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Robocup Junior 2019 Sydney Onstage

The task was to build robots to make a performance. We managed to win the first place! Our performance had 4 components:

• The highlight was the humanoid-shape (wheeled base) robot called Eve
• A laptop to record my motion and using Openpose for 2D pose detection to send command to Eve
• The guitar playing robot with many servos and a camera to decode a music script
• Repurposed Soccer holonomic robot flashing lights

Competition

Eve the robot	Pose Detection laptop
The support	The team

Performance

Just a group of high school students playing around! 😅 Official Video

Post-competition development

After the competition, I extended the project by building an exo-suit to control Eve more directly instead of using the webcam. The exo-suit wrapped around the operator body and it had rotary encoders at the joints to map the joint angle on to Eve.

Exo-suit Front	Exo-suit Back

I demonstrated that in front of the school principal during the school science fair!

Robocup Juinor 2018 Montreal Rescue Line

The task was to build a mobile robot that can track lines with various complications and collect balls in a room

Everyone was hard at work

It was not the sleekest robot but it got things done

Robot	Robot breakdown

Represented Singapore and the school