Paul FLORENCE

I take care of managing a local team for the French competition "Coupe de France de Robotique". During the whole year (from September to May) we teach newcomers electronic and informatic while building a new robot. I am involved in the following aspect of the robot :

• Writing the firmware for some of the electronic boards using mbed (we use a stm32f446RE and some PIC33F). This include writing drivers for Herkulex servomotors and writing a lot of documentation.
• Maintaining C++ code for abstracting low level communication using modern practice from C++11, C++14 and C++17 for the core of the robot
• Writing GUI tools to help build and debug the robot, including a logical/physical simulator to test AIs before the robot is built. Those kind of projects allowed me to become confident when writing GTK3 applications.
• Setting up all the tools so that everyone can work confidently. I created a few scripts to automate cross-compilation from x86_64 to arm and some other to automate the process of flashing the nucleo board.
• Writing an Hardware Abstraction Library for stm32f446.

• Taking care of the budget.
• Handling the relationship with various sponsors.
• Coordinate everyone's work.