Functional Goals

On this page, we first describe our high priority goals that make up our minimum viable product (MVP). Then we describe our primary goals achieved to allow our robot to compete. Finally, we give secondary goals that could improve our competitiveness, but not critical to the gameplay capability of the robot.

Minimum Viable Product (Highest Priority Goals)

The two highest priority goals necessary for the robot to have bare minimum functionality is:

• Catch a beach ball.
• Throw a beach ball.

Primary Goals (High Priority Goals)

After achieving these two basic functions, we then have goals necessary to actually play catch at the competition:

• Track a human player's position on the field.
• Aim our throws in the correct direction at the human player.
• Throw the ball at speeds necessary to reach all three zones.
• Catch the ball when thrown by an adversarial opponent.
• Throw the ball such that an adversary is unable to catch it.
• Autonomously play catch without human control.

Secondary Goals (Low Priority Goals)

Finally, we have extended goals that would further improve our competition capability, but not crucial to the direct functionality.

• Telecommunication for remote control operation over a wireless data link.
• Ball detection and visual serving to catch.
• Minimize vibration from flywheels to reduce noise.
• Quick start up time.