Week 9

During this week we participated in the seeding rounds of the competition! Realistically, this meant that we had a pre-competition opportunity to play with our robot against other robots and get checked off for the class. After a late night by our group doing calibrations, the robot worked really well! We added a very last-minute catching mechanism (literally the morning of the seeding competition) that, while not robust at all, did work very well once it worked.

While the group is not actually aware of how we scored during these matches, we feel we did very well, and it was great to test the robot during real matches. It was great to see the system come together.

We satisfied all the final checkoff requirements for our robot at this time, as well.

Checkoff requirements:

• Each group member demonstrates knowledge of all robot systems
• Setup in less than 4 minutes (includes both set-up and calibration), Reset in 2 minutes
• Robot can catch ball thrown by teammate
• Robot can throw ball back to teammate
• Robot can throw ball back to teammate at different section in same zone
• Robot can throw ball past rear boundary
• Robot throws ball past dummy adversary (positioned directly in front of it)
• Robot can catch a ball thrown by adversary (1 in 5 attempts)
• Robot completes 2 cycles in a 1-minute round
• Robot fits within 3-ft x 5-ft cylinder
• Professional looking robot (No duct tape, excessive hot glue, messy wiring)