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Welcome to RoboMontreal!
Montreal's Robotics Community
Who We Are
RoboMontreal is a club for robotics enthusiasts from the Montreal area. RoboMontreal has monthly meetings (see the little box to the right), hosts a robot racing team (team NORM), and has a forum.
The goal of RoboMontreal is to collect local resources and expertise into one place, stimulating the robotics community in Montreal.
RoboMontreal is an informal club, and is open to anyone who's interested in robots. Drop us a line!
Upcoming Events
GEEKMONTREAL Geek OUT!
Saturday, July 26th
News
May 7, 2008
I've just posted the final bit of stuff from the Robot Racing event: a set of photos, which you can find here on Flickr. That's all I've got for this year's event. Peace out y'all!
May 7, 2008
Here's Part 3 of our 3 part video on the 2008 Robot Racing Competition: The Main Race! Of the 10 robots that registered, 8 showed up, 4 qualified, and 3 completed all 4 laps of the main race. We were one of them!
May 6, 2008
Here's Part 2 of our 3 part video on the 2008 Robot Racing Competition: Qualifying Laps
May 5, 2008
Here's Part 1 of RoboMontreal's
23 part video on the 2008 Robot Racing Competition:April 28th, 2008
The racing team returned from its Waterloo road trip yesterday - and what a trip it was! We finalized our navigation algorithm on the car ride out, tweaked the control parameters the morning of the race, and added some speed control and camera tuning features during the event! And guess what: it worked! Of 8 entries, ours was one of only 3 to complete the race. It was a beautiful thing to see!
Even though we didn't win the race, we consider this an overwhelming success. The robot was controlled, if cautious, the vision system worked well, the platform was flexible enough for last-minute changes, and, most importantly, we showed that our approach is viable. All we really need to do for next year is tune and improve what we've already got working!
Thanks to everyone who helped work on the robot over the past year, and a big shout out to our new friends from UBC Thunderbird Robotics, who seem to share our passion for both robotics and refreshing barley-based beverages. We look forward to seeing everyone again next year!
April 4th, 2008
The RoboMontreal Robot Racing team is working hard to finish up our robot for this year's competition on April 27th. This year's robot's named Nostradamnus, and if all goes well, will include a bank of IR sensors and a camera + FPGA system developped specifically for pylon detection.
Nov 17th, 2007
RoboMontreal has been featured in Snap Magazine! Snap is a new Montreal Arts & Lifestyle magazine. The November issue is available online at www.snapme.ca. Warning: there's some adults-only material on the site. The article on RoboMontreal is all clean, though, and is about 11 pages into the November issue. Fame & fortune, here we come! ; )
Nov 12th, 2007
We're back from the CNRG, and it was a great time! I've posted a trip report in the forum.
Nov 2nd, 2007
We're getting organized for a road trip to the CNRG next weekend. Check out the forum for car-pooling and other information.
August 12th, 2007
I've just posted "A Newbie's First Experience with Gumstix". It presents my own experience getting a Gumstix computer and toolchain up and running. I hope you find it useful!
May 15, 2007
I've erected a separate page for the Robot Racing Videos, including a new recon footage video documenting this year's course from a robot's point of view.
May 4, 2007
The Adventures of Team N.O.R.M., Part III: Finale. Hope you've enjoyed watching. We'll be updating the web page as we complete the robot.
May 4, 2007
Here's the continuation of Team N.O.R.M.'s 3-part video. This is Part II: Race.
May 1, 2007
Robot Racing was a blast! Three of Team N.O.R.M.'s members drove out to Waterloo this past weekend, representing Montreal in what I personally consider to be the most promising robotics event out there in terms of innovation and accessibility. I'm putting together a series of videos of our trip. Here's Part I: Build. I hope you enjoy!
April 22, 2007
I've just posted a mega-update to the forum. A quick summary: RobotRacing is this Friday, ECRG is May 5th, WCRG is May 12th, and our next meeting is pushed back to May 16th.
With Robot Racing done, we'll be looking for new group projects. Post your ideas in the forum.
We're also thinking of events to hold locally - post your craziest ideas in the forum!
We hit #4 on a Google search for "Montreal Robotics". This is really, really cool!
Finally, congratulations to those who participated in CRAC, 2007!
Go check out the forum for more details on all this....
March 4th, 2007
RoboWars took place on Saturday, and it was a blast! A big thanks to David-John for organizing a great event. Congratulations also to the big winners for the day, and thanks to everyone who came out to make this such a success.
