Team Roboticus

Team Roboticus is a Dutch Robotics team with young members ranging from 12 to 19 years of age! As of today, the team has a total of 30 members and is continuously growing. Team Roboticus has been designing, building and programming many variants of autonomous robots over the past 10 years. Our senior students have been designing a new generation of football robots that will compete in the upcoming Dutch Championship Robot Football in April. Here, we will compete against other teams to claim a ticket to the World Championship Robot Football this summer in Bordeaux, France!

Eurocircuits PCBs

In order to develop a high performing football robot, fully custom PCBs needed to be designed. Our CAD Designers have been working on a lower and upper PCB optimized for space, weight, performance and user-friendliness. After designing the PCBs, they need to be professionally manufactured. We reached out to Eurocircuits and they were happy to make our PCBs a reality. Our PCBs have a distinct shape in line with the 3D printed frame of the robot. Our lower PCB has many purposes. Phototransistors in combination with neopixels are present for fast line detection on the soccer playing field. Motor controllers are present for adequate and impulsive movement, various voltage regulators provide the necessary voltages to the different components and a powerful microcontroller makes everything work together. An integrated bluetooth module is present to communicate with a second soccer robot and is used for realtime software debugging. The Upper PCB contains IR Receivers to find the IR beaconed football, an orientation sensor, status lights and a camera module to detect the goals, lines and opponents on the football field. We have chosen to make our robots highly modular, this enables us to futureproof our designs and increases the repairability and maintenance of our robots.

Our lower PCBs have already been finalised and manufactured by Eurocircuits. Eurocircuits has enabled us to make our ideas a reality of which we are very thankful!