2017-2018

RELIC RECOVERY

As our first year of FTC, the Relic Recovery Challenge proved to be quite a challenge. Having formed the team only in October, we had only one month before our first scrimmage at the Fall Harvest Meet. After the scrimmage, we had all sorts of ideas for how to improve our robot, and took apart our robot to build a completely new design. Finally, at the Deep South League Meet, we qualified for states after winning the 3rd place Inspire Award! At states, we became Turnpike Division Finalists even after several robot catastophes in the middle of the competition :)

Engineering Design :Engineering Notebook

Code Repository: FTC2017-RelicRecovery.git

Relic Recovery Challenge

In the Relic Recovery Challenge, teams adventure through a jungle to find glyphs and store them in cryptoboxes, as well as find the ancient relic.

See the Relic Recovery Introduction Video here

For detailed information about the Relic Recovery Challenge, see the Game Manual

Autonomous Period

Remove opposing alliance's jewel from its position without moving yours - 30 pt
Place a glyph in the cryptobox - 15 pt / glyph
Placing glyph in correct column of the cryptobox by sensing Pictograph message - 15 pt

Driver-Controlled Period

Place a glyph in the cryptobox - 2 pt / glyph
Complete a row of glyphs in the cryptobox - 10 pt / row
Complete a column of glyphs in the cryptobox - 20 pt / column
Complete a Cipher (a special cryptobox pattern of 12 glyphs) - 30 pt

Endgame

Place the alliance's Relic in the Recovery Zone (+15 pt if placed upright)
- Placed in Zone 1 - 10 pt
- Placed in Zone 2 - 20 pt
- Placed in Zone 3 - 30 pt
Balance and Park on Balancing Stone - 20 pt

Season Awards

Division Finalist

Garden State Championship

Innovate Award

Deep South League

Finalist Award

Deep South League

Highest Points

Jersey Shore Meet

Finalist Alliance

Fall Harvest Meet

Alliance Teamwork

Fall Harvest Meet

Robot Evolution

Design 1

Scrimmage Robot

Two powered wheels in theback, two omni wheels in the front, not powered
Rotating arm controlled by DC motor
Wooden stick with color sensor at the end to sense and smack jewels
Single REV Expansion Hub
Pinch style glyph gripper

Design 2

Qualifier Robot

Four powered Mecanum Wheels with bevel gears, and held motors vertically
Vertical Drawer Slides to stack gylphs
Two part wooden jewel smacker with color sensor at the end (2 servos)
Horizontal linear slides with continuous stringing for grabbing glyph and placing in third Recovery Zone
Two REV Expansion Hubs
Flat gripper that can grab two glyphs with modifications for traction

Design 3 (final)

States Robot

Four powered Mecanum Wheels with bevel gears, and held motors vertically
Vertical Drawer Slides to stack gylphs
Two part wooden jewel smacker with color sensor at the end (2 servos)
Horizontal linear slides with cascading stringing for grabbing glyph and placing in third Recovery Zone. Cascading stringing allows for it to extend much much faster
Two REV Expansion Hubs
Double Gripper with a servos to rotate the positions of the two grippers

Videos

Placing Relic in the competition

Testing in progress

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