To develop and test the firmware for all the sensors, should we create virtual sensor models for simulation, or should we use our physical setup to build and test the firmware directly before implementing it in the competition?
Also, please clarify the following:
1.Sensor Types and Pinouts:
What types of sensors will be used in the competition, and what are their specific pin configurations?
2.Pressure Panel Sensor:
What is the exact model or name of the sensor used for detecting pressure on the panel?
3.UWB Tag:
What model of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) tag should we work with for localization or communication?
Challenge 2 is no more but for the sake of giving some answers either way:
whole competition was structured in a way that you wouldn’t need to build a 1:1 model of our setup, and only need a microprocessor devboard + a couple of buttons/switches and LEDs - as most of the actual sensor data would’ve been abstracted by our middleware (i.e. logic levels, communication protocols and so on). This is also why you wouldn’t need exact sensor models - you’d simply change them to a switch on a board and trigger them that way.
pin configurations were meant to be published like two weeks from now - as we finalize the setup ourself
UWB part was entirely on our part - we already have a setup for this and your only interface would be a ROS topic with a numerical value