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Overview
I was a member FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team 125 (the NUTRONs) from 2015 through 2022. Mentored by professional engineers, I worked to build ~150lb robots for competition. Our robots were custom-designed and manufactured in our own machine shop from scratch. Over the course of just 2 months, I brainstormed, prototyped, designed, manufactured, and iterated a robot to compete in each year's challenge with my team. As team captain, I learned leadership and communication skills. I coordinated design and assembly and ensured timelines were followed.
I led the design of our team's robots from 2020 - 2022, and I was a subsystem design lead from 2018 - 2022. Robots for which I designed subsystems and was the driver have:
Won the 2019 New England FRC championship
Won our 2021 virtual challenge division
Finalist of our 2022 world championship division
Read more about the robots for which I led the design below!
Mini documentary about my team showcasing my role
Video showcasing our 2022 robot, for which I led the design
CAD of my team's 2022 robot
Ball intake, serialization, and feeding system
2022 Robot
2022 Robot
I led the design of our 2022 robot. The challenge for this year was to launch basketball sized tennis balls into a horizontal hoop 10ft in the air. I led the design of the entire robot, including managing integration and designing multiple subsystems myself.
I designed the ball intake, serialization, and feeding system which would pull the balls off the floor, center them, and feed them into the launcher one by one. The system also had the capability to eject incorrect color balls out the opposite side of the robot.
This robot was compact, and packaging these systems in close proximity required laying out CAD in an intelligent, parametric way. I iterated each sub system of my design multiple times before arriving at our competition ready design.
2021 Robot
2021 Robot
During the pandemic, the competition was virtual, and focused on mobility. I designed a drive module system that consisted of 4 wheels, each independently drivable and steerable. This allowed the robot to be able to translate in any direction while simultaneously rotating.
The module used a co-axial design where the drive shaft for the wheel was concentric with the azimuth pulley pivoting the wheel. This allowed for both motors to be mounted statically to the frame of the robot.
This system allowed our robot to place first in its division.
CAD of the drive module for our 2021 robot
Completed drive base
CAD of my team's 2020 robot
My team's 2020 robot
2020 Robot
2020 Robot
The 2020 challenge was to score foam balls into a small goal about 10ft in the air. The robot could hold 5 at a time. I led the design of the turret, intake, and superstructure.
I determined optimized non-parallel 4 bar geometry to allow the intake system to deploy/retract into specific positions.
I designed a flywheel drive system, which improved the consistency of our launch system by increasing the rotational inertia.
More robots that I designed at least a major subsystem for!
More robots that I designed at least a major subsystem for!
CAD of my team's 2019 robot
My team's 2019 robot
My team's 2018 robot
My team's 2022 robot
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