Project C.G.S. is a group of alumni from a student robotics club at Waseda University. While we were students, we participated in the NHK Robocon (an annual competition organized by Japan’s national broadcaster) and the Tsukuba Challenge (an annual domestic UGV competition). After we graduated, we reorganized ourselves as a self-funded club and expanded our activities by competing in the Mohammed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC).
Unlike commertial development projects, we participate in the competitions purely for fun. We eagerly adopt state-of-the-art algorithms and find excitement in testing them in real-world scenarios.
My primary role in the project was recognition software development. I integrated inputs from various sensors, including color cameras, depth cameras, and LIDARs, and designed software that enabled the robot to understand its environment.
For UAVs for MBZIRC 2020, I was also responsible for mechanical and electrical design of the hardware. I built the UAV at home and piloted it during several test flights to evaluate its performance.
