Past FRC Seasons

Small compilation of past seasons. Enjoy!

2022-2023: Charged Up

The team is hard at work building and assembling multiple mechanisms on our robot. Members of our Manipulation design team have begun to cut and assemble various pieces for three different arm designs. Additionally, the Acquisition/Intake design team has continued prototyping and testing several different ideas. These prototypes will help us evaluate each design and ultimately pick the best mechanism. Finally, the Drivetrain team has decided on a swerve drivetrain system, building on our work last year when we introduced it to our team. Moreover, the Control Systems team has built multiple pneumatics boards and are now helping each design team test their prototypes. Moving forward, we are completely changing how we approach autonomous with our new vision system, and incorporating sensors into our subsystems to reduce human error.

All throughout, the entire team has maintained motivation, determination, and team spirit as we work to build the best robot we can!

Preseason Video

ASL Robotics Video Preseason.mp4

Swerve Drive Development Video

FinalSwerveReveal.mov

2021-2022:
Rapid React

Last year, we innovated with a new swerve drive and vision system. Our swerve drive gave us unmatched mobility compared to previous tank drives: we could move in any direction while keeping any orientation or rotating the robot. This allowed us to rotate while moving, cutting down precious travel time. We also had computer vision which helped us aim for the upper hub and also detected balls during autonomous. Our strategy with this robot was to use our mobility combined with our catapult to quickly pick up balls and launch them into the upper hub.

Length: 31 in. Width: 31 in. Height: 52 in.

2019-2021: Infinite Recharge

Even though we were not able to participate in an FRC competition during both the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons due to travel restrictions, our team still worked through the pandemic to teach the next generation of team members the skills they would need to succeed.

Length: 31 in. Width: 27 in. Height: 45 in.

We competed in Chicago, IL. We used a Mecanum intake that filtered balls into the storage and pistons that lowered and raised the intake. Balls got fed directly from the intake to the storage which looped into the shooter; 5 balls could be stored at once. Our shooter was a flywheel with variable power and adjustable angles for greater precision and control. We also built a climber that could extend to the max height of the hangar. This combined with our arcade drive allowed us to focus on shooting power cells into the high power port.

2018-2019: FIRST Deep Space

In 2018 we built a robot that was focused on completing the rocket - so we were able to pick up and score both cargo and hatch panels. We had a floor intake for the cargo and a velcro mechanism that was able to pick up hatch panels from the human player station. Both were lifted to all three levels of the rocket by an elevator. We were also able to start on hab level 2 and ended on hab level 1.

Length: 31 in. Width: 27 in. Height: 25 in.