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Problem Statement
Penelope O'Meara, Rachael Yeager, Kirsten Neubauer-Pons, and Aidan Zipperer will design, build, and use a remotely operated vehicle (R.O.V.) to complete a certain set of tasks. They will have from October 11th to November 17 to construct their design at Northern High School, and they will have December 9th to test their R.O.V. at the Forest Hills Aquatic Center.
Birth of Design
Our team bounced a couple of ideas around before we settled on our initial design (see image to left to see brainstorming). We eliminated the design with all four motors facing the back because the R.O.V. wouldn't have vertical motion. Additionally, the design with two motors in the back was also taken out for the same reason: no vertical motion. We finally settled on a design that allowed for vertical, rotational, and forward motion. Our initial design would have four motors, two branching off from the back and two branching off from opposite ends (image to left below). We decided we wanted the “walrus tusks” (extended limbs for picking up Ts) to protrude out of the front of our design. We also wanted to ensure that the “tusks” were closer to the ground so that they could pick up the "T"s.
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