Robot Design

We started off with our previous season's robot, which we had nicknamed "Boxer" or "Boxbot". It is a robot in the shape of a box with a motor at the front to connect attachments,  two colour sensors at the bottom, a gyro sensor in the middle at the bottom, and a touch sensor facing the front to square up.  The reason why the boxbot is rectangular is because we can square up against the walls of the arena and aiming jig. 

Our aiming jig underwent some changes, such as some holders to contain our attachments and spare building pieces. We did this by having a fixed "floor" connected to the interior structure, then having a movable roof that makes the parts inside stay inside. We have a part of the roof that can slide off (It is regularly pinned on, but can be removed with ease), letting us be able to quickly get attachments out of the box once inspection has finished.

Our Chief Robot Designer at the time also upgraded our robot so that we had an extra motor, (Now at our max of 4 motors) at the top. The four motors that we are using are: one for each wheel (two wheels and one unmotorised support wheel), one motor on the front and one on the top for attachments. This allows us to have greater flexibility with our attachments. and greater stability for those attachments. 

We have also redone the floor of the robot as it wasn't moving properly, because it was too low to the ground. We then had to modify all of our code to fit this new design. We also remade some of our attachments, and made some innovative ones shown below. 

This was Boxer v1.3, as we had made many small modifications over the season, like adding the vertical attachment points.