TE Helps Design The Ultimate Combat Robot
TE Connectivity engineers bring their expertise and rugged TE connectors into battle — helping to upgrade Team Valkryie’s robot design for the ultimate robot combat series BattleBots® on Discovery Channel.
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As part of TE’s sponsorship of Team Valkyrie, a team of TE engineers offered valuable insight and extensive application expertise with the goal of providing connected solutions that give the team’s robot an edge over its competitors.
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Big Design Upgrades for a Small Robot
TE has worked closely with Team Valkyrie to improve their robot’s design in a few areas, such as:
- Telemetry system: TE expertise helped give Valkyrie the ability to live-broadcast data back to the team’s transmitters during a match in order to switch their strategy on the fly.
- Cooling system: TE worked with Valkyrie on a rugged cooling system designed to keep the weapon’s motor controller running amid the heat and hard-hitting action of battle.
- Data logging systems: TE recommended Team Valkyrie program a microcontroller hooked up to an inductive current sensor to log real-time data going into their weapon motor to test weapon performance.
- Electric brake design: TE engineers affirmed Valkyrie’s design to safely discharge energy from the weapon within a one-minute time limit.
