REDEMPTION at Battlebots! (Round #2)

fight fight

fight the battle

begin Oh

No 3 2

1 to the battle

box we're competing on BattleBots the

most brutal robot fighting competition

in the world we've already got three

videos on this but in case you missed it

we funded and mentored W student to

create orbitron one of the first aid

driven Battle Bots time was limited but

we managed to build a full bot in just

over 8 weeks drove to Vegas for our

first proven grounds match and lost

terribly but we don't give up we rebuilt

it better faster and stronger and now

the team's back in Vegas to fight a new

Contender disarray another vertical

spinner built by Wildcat robotics will

we be Victorious and secure a spot on

the upcoming TV show or will this be the

end of orbitron this video is sponsored

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business we're at the BattleBots Arena

and our robot's here let's open it

up wait one robot we mean two thanks to

Avid CNC we can machine the frames inous

so now we have enough parts for two

robots meaning we're good for both

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fights big

spin we have we have orbitron 2 and

orbitron

2.1 no they're they're the same thing

they're just

the exact same Parts times two so we're

fighting daray desay is another vertical

spinner it's got a big drum with two

teeth on either end um it's a pretty

wide bot so it have a very stable stance

but um since this time we're fighting a

vertical spinner and our robot is more

optimized for a vertical spinner I think

we have a good chance we've noticed in

the past FS that disarray is done

they've ran a miniot and we're not sure

if they're going to run it this time but

that could potentially screw up our

Machine Vision because our system our

main motion tracking uses motion

detection and the mini bot is motion so

sometimes it might actually lose

tracking of their bot and go after the

miniot which would not be good are you

worried at all if they bring the

miniot uh for mechanical reasons no for

Peter yes um and the problem is we won't

really be able to test that until

tomorrow as long as we click on the

right bot and we have set the minimum

size right that min mini bot should be

just filtered

out

cool

outstanding oh no setting up the camera

I'm going to try and make sure the

angle's good we can see like the whole

field it's nice and focus now one of the

new additions this time is we added the

ability to mask out different regions of

the image and that kind of fooled our

our tracking before it was the screws

last time right yeah and I'm just going

to draw a rectangle and then block them

out so now it shouldn't get fooled if

they move cuz they're gone

so I glued the magnet arrays on Saturday

and Sunday packed them up threw them in

the crate so now we have to do is take

them put the Emi shield in the back and

drop them into the robot we have to just

kind of get them in there hopefully

pinch no fingers I have got gloves for a

reason and then we should be stuck to

the ground with 100 lb more

Force okay don't tilt it down got it yep

Forks good we are installing the

batteries for the first time at the

BattleBots Arena well not not the first

time but like the first time here we're

going to do a full system check make

sure we have full communication with the

controllers all the motor temperatures

look good and then we're going to the

Box we're going to do our uh Drive

testing and tuning so we're going to

make sure we're tuning with the magnets

we have the right wheels on in place now

so we're going to make sure we have as

much traction as we can get we going to

tune the speeds the accelerations the

turn radiuses the camera overlay test

all of our software changes and make

sure our camera mount is perfect and if

all goes well we'll be ready to fight

tomorrow if you'd like to see the full

schematic diagram make sure to check out

our maker.io Link in the description

below do you have one drive okay how

about the other one yes

cool yeah let's talk about controllers

let's address the elephant in the room

here so in our first fight we had our

PlayStation 5 dual sense controller

connected via USB to Peter's laptop and

at some point during the match we know

exactly what point it decided to

disconnect so we said screw wireless

controllers and we have these Microsoft

officially licensed Xbox controllers

that are just wired and then we have one

and another one and another

one and another one we're not having a

controller disconnect this

time

it's Center Board One Drive working on

it Peter we have radio we have radio

okay we lost the

radio every team has offse break the

indicator light on this side so we are

going to fix

that sound

yeah um it made a terrible popping noise

when I turned it

on yeah so do we have anything are we

talking anything right now nothing okay

we're calling

it I'm going to grab you go down that

way that way

sure okay yeah I'm worried wir let's

just pull that side off that side's easy

to pull off we never saw this drive turn

on that might have been what blew up

yeah to the front is the best canot get

power I do not

know well we pinched our

backlight cables and that's a bit of a

problem because the backlight goes

directly to the batteries so our motor

drivers aren't working and motor dri

aren working the motor's aren working

and the bot's not working so we're going

to try to cut the cables here where

they're pinched you can see all that's

exposed cut splice add the new length on

and hopefully nothing's permanently

damaged and it works the switch BW when

he

starts switch

pop the only thing that appears to be

normal is the drive

yeah I don't know what else I'm

expecting to get out of this we know

that the dryve vesque we know the one

drve vesk is somewhat alive we know that

weapon desk is somewhat alive so right

now we know that this ESC is probably

not dead yes we don't know about the

this one cuz we couldn't turn it on

let's fix the can and then see if the

drive comes on

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okay so we know a couple things are

wrong this switch may not survive um we

know our can harness took some damage we

know one of our switches is

dead and we that's all we know we have

to fix those two items before we can

actually go and diagnose other things

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more we fixed a power switch and the

Cann bu harness and the end indicator

light wires and we're hoping that will

fix absolutely everything but then this

is the the bar that wasn't working right

now we see the VES Express and that

drive as soon as I try to reload it just

dies totally oh oh no I mean when we had

power this's plan team replace three

motor controllers all three that kind of

out of the robot so we get to see how

quickly we can replace them

now

right now we have three working escs in

the robot and one not

working yeah so then tomorrow we have to

get another working ESC in there okay

whatever that means not a good first

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get started today now back to the fight

wish us

luck where we at we kind of ended last

night not knowing what's up we came in

this morning with a fresh set of eyes

and determined that the issue was

nothing that we thought it was yay for

fresh set of eyes we replaced the

controller board that was bad we did not

replace the motor controller from

yesterday so now we have to go take it

back outside and do the full Suite of

calibration on all the motors and yeah I

guess on all the motors and then make

sure we're good and get

testing okay I'm going to switch to the

other one make sure that forward is in

fact forward

clear we have four motor controllers

working in the robot they have spun up

all the motors we are just going through

verifying the firmware on all the boards

s going to button up the robot get the

weapons on in the Box this robot's

throwing with my with my emotions I

don't know it works it doesn't work it

kind of works it kind of doesn't work

everything's closed up and we're seeing

all the data now and it's being very

responsive so I'm really

hopeful I'm trying to connect to it what

you're not seeing right here is we're

having control issues with the robot

we're not getting data from the computer

at a regular interval and that just

makes the robot uncontrollable we can't

fight with the robot in this

condition what's

happening this board is really something

about this assembly is like he so it's

happy right now and we do this and it's

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dead so this wire that is supposed to be

soldered to there just

isn't

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yes so our next hypothesis is just the

antenna got damaged I still don't know

why these guys aren't working properly

but these ones have been notoriously

worse than the center board so we're our

next test is to try swapping the antenna

and um hopefully that'll fix it in the

diagnostic process we got to the point

where we're basically tearing out the

center board uh so we're just going to

replace it with another

one

don't stop point to get the robot Tong

don't mess

up that was good except for I'm holding

a magnet in my hand we're going to look

at the magnet arrays if we sheared the

threads out then we're not going to run

the magnets if the screws just loosened

out from vibrations we're going to lock

tap the screws and run the magnets we're

going to change the

batteries and get

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ready multiple robots uh we've done

everything we can the boss powering up

all of our drivers are connecting we

have at least improved our communication

we've seen a drive our Forks are working

at least a little bit better so I'm

hopeful yeah I'm ready all I have to do

is turn on the robot and take the tooth

covers off

believe fight number three lucky

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one

[Applause]

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ners are high let's make a spash

disarray or like

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disassembled

fight fight fight fight

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fight

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in 10 9

8 guys go all the way back to okay

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back

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that was awesome we've got the replay

going here and this feel good you guys

start it

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off we're looking really really good the

forks are bent up again that's fine

that's how they're supposed to happen

there's some chips on the weapon discs

maybe a little more than we were hoping

for but we destroyed their ar500 weapon

and armor but I think I don't think

we're changing anything

yeah every time you win a battle B you

get a wind POG and the idea is you put

them on the side of your Bot like kills

like in World War II you know you put

like a whatever right kill count yeah

kill

count thank

you that means so uh that everyone who

wins a fight in battle gets a winall so

congratulations that's our first one TV

tapings we actually put all you see the

kids they're actually all yeah perfect

you get another one tomorrow yeah what

went right was we had traction we could

move controllably my favorite clip is

the very first few seconds of the match

when you know we claimed the center

really quick and then we adjusted for

where they were going I think what needs

to change in terms of Mobility is I was

over steering quite a lot so I think

there's some stability stuff we can do

to start the radio's actually performed

so that's the big thing we could talk to

the robot unfortunately we were

struggling to lock the vision we got it

around halfway through but then they

were under the camera spot so I couldn't

really there wasn't much it could track

cuz it's literally just blocked off but

and then the match ended and I was like

wait it's over like what cuz I was just

looking at the screen and then suddenly

we're walking off so I'm I was like

confused we got to take the forks off

we're just going to drop new ones on

we're going to change out the bar we're

going to clean up the disc bend the self

Rider

straight and that's it I couldn't be

happier

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so after our fight yesterday we went

rebuild the robot fixed everything that

was broken we got it back in the box

with the old Wheels the ones we were

testing in the morning so now we're

going to put it back in the box for more

time make sure that everything's good

because we are and we want to test AI

stuff and then we're going to take it

back to the pits pull the side armor

panels off swap the wheels get new

batteries in it and be ready for our

next fight around

3:30

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to

whoa couple of Speedy Bots wow a

few the little guy look at shark baby

looks like he's

ready we're going to send you into

orbit disarray I think

disassembled okay

okay F fight fight fight fight there

they

go apart from

somebody what I worry about the little

guy Steve me too not going to I'd stay

out the way follow

him oh

for you can feel the power of this

weapon taking disarray the little guy's

com to go now he's on his

side oh no

there we

go okay this I'm going to need to see

some movement or I'm counting you

out okay in 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

1 1

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knockout yes

no

fires wow they are uh they are

destroyed oh they are uh they're worried

about

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dis it went better than last time I

don't know what else to say our robot is

in just as much of One Piece as it was

last time and the robot is in

significantly more pieces than it was

last

time I don't think we could have asked

for literally anymore this is the first

round where we've actually broken the

barrier of human control it was a

honestly minor difference but to say

that we've done it now just feels so

good and we got the data so we can keep

improving I'm just happy we're off the

ground All Things Considered everything

went awesome the team did a great job

diagnosing and fixing the robot during

the kind of Trials of Friday and

Saturday morning the repairs last night

went beautiful we were had no concerns

about being ready for the fight today

and both fights just went really well

they went really as well as we could

have asked it was a lot of fun I'm glad

we did

this now that's what I'm talking about I

wish I could have been there shortly

after the fight the co-founder of

BattleBots had this to say they came um

you know like a month ago or whatever

and they lost both fights and then they

came this time and they won both fights

you know so he kind of looked at their

mistakes they made they found ways to

fix them they found ways to make them

better I guarantee you when they show up

for the TV tournament you know which

they will they're going to be way ahead

of everybody else that doesn't you know

doesn't come play in the in the

opportunity with the Proving Grounds so

we're pretty confident that we're going

to be on the TV show but we have our

work cut out for us if we want to win

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