Rack em up -  Spring 2017

Robot Contest Description

Swiss Cheese

Jason Adkins

Obed Campos

Shancheng Li

Jed Tadios

Robot Description: Swiss Cheese is a rail robot that incorporates a T-bar mechanism to push down the tilting tubes, guide billiard balls across the floor of the arena, and simultaneously push and lift the balls into the scoring area.

Oral Presentation Slides

Note: Regarding the analysis section of the presentation, it was later realized that the radius of each gear was incorrectly presented as 0.25 in (0.00635 m). The correct radius of each gear is 0.75 in (0.01905 m). Substituting this correct radius into Equation (3) along with the other measured values results in an additional mass of 3.079 kg and a percent error of 40.4%.