Archimedes SCOUTING

[Rick]

1 week to get all this scouting done. i guess ill take hold of the situation and be responsible for organizing Archimedes scouting.

PLEASE no posts other than scouting reports.

ok i need the following from each team. in the response please include this form:
Team #:

Team Name:

Speed (in ft/sec):

# of Goals GRABBED:

BREIF description of ball handling and depositing:

Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):

Email of who to send the finished product to:

thanks in advance to all the Archimedes teams.

[Rick]

Team #:121

Team Name: Islanders

Speed: 6 ft/s

# of Goals GRABBED: 1

BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: Can suck up 3 balls wide. Max basket capacity is 20 balls. Uses a row of wooden slats to act as a basket and blanket. raises up one end of the slats and balls just roll in. simple but very effective.

Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):NYC: 5th seed 67 qp, lost in 1/4's. UTC: 4th seed 87 qp, Won.

Email of who to send the finished product to: RMB184@hotmail.com

[Amy_ComBBAT]

Team #: 21

Team Name: ComBBAT

Speed (in ft/sec): 8 ft/sec...

# of Goals GRABBED: 3

BREIF description of ball/goal handling and depositing: We are able to get two goals of the start and can easily grab the third with our front grabbers or can have another team feed us the third in the endzone, all three grippers can easily deposit goals, and all the grabbers are seperate so we can let go of one or two or three at any time and re-grab them if needed

Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc): 2 seed philly, 37 seed ksc

Email of who to send the finished product to: Rose_eve00@yahoo.com

[Amy Beth]

Team #330

Team name Beach Bot

Speed: 8.5-10 feet/sec

Goals: 1, 2 or theoretically 3

No ball capability

*other features:
~Three wheeled drive for extra maneuverability (powered by three drill motors)
~Can shift gears at any speed
~Forklift-like device to move a robot that is immobilized
~Pneumatic "skirt" that drops down to immobilize in a goal scoring zone
~Steerable, 40 ft. send home device
(just my little selling job :D)

Regional results: Seeded 29th in Silicon Valley (avg. qps: 47); chosen by 6th seeded team
Seeded 21st in Southern California (avg. qps: 59.5); chosen by 1st seeded team and won.

Email to bcdahendry@yahoo.com

[patrickrd]

Team #: 639

Team Name: Code Red Robotics

Speed (in ft/sec): 7 ft/sec

# of Goals GRABBED: 2

BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: none

Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
NYC - Fifth place, motorola quality award
Canada - Finalists (8th seed after qualifiers), GM Industrial Design Award

Other Features: Ability to lift side of goal while extending a second set of wheels. Doubles normal force of wheels on ground for added traction in addition to providing a 3:1 torque vs. speed exchange. Ability to independently grab and release each goal.

Email of who to send the finished product to: prd8@cornell.edu

[rees2001]

Team #: 340

Team Name: Grr

Speed (in ft/sec): 5 - 6

# of Goals GRABBED: 2

BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: removed damaged ball kicker & will be replacing with replica of rear grabber. Very effective auto grab. Lift goals to improve power & mobility.

Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
NYC #2 seed 78.44 average points.
Delphi "Driving Tomorrow’s Technology” Award

Email of who to send the finished product to:
first340@hotmail.com

[Patrick Wang]

Team 115

Team Name: Monta Vista Robotics Team

Speed: 6 or 9 ft/s (seperate sprocket setups)

Goals grabbed: 1

No ball handling abilty

Using a 4 motor Drive. 2 drill + 2 chiphua's. Fast goal grab/release, extremely agile robot. 40 ft tether. Anti-Tether Device for Nationals.

Regionals Results
SV- Number 35 Seed. Finalists

Send-to PatrickZWang@hotmail.com

[Anne Shade]

Team #: 832

Team Name: Chimera

Speed (in ft/sec): 9

# of Goals GRABBED: 1

BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: Conveyer system can pick balls up from the floor and deposit them in a goal behind us.

Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
KSC Rookie All Star Award

Email of who to send the finished product to:
gte936m@prism.gatech.edu

[Andy Baker]

Team: 45

Team Name: TechnoKats

Speed (in ft/sec): High=11 fps, Low=3 fps

# of Goals GRABBED: 1, lifted

BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: Can collect and store up to 22 balls, usually getting 15-20 within 45 seconds. Can dump quickly and reliably (pivoted basket)

Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
Buckeye Regional: 9th seed, picked in first round by 4th seed (mid 60's QP ave.) Beaten in the semi-finals.
Motorola Midwest Regional: 8th seed, picked first by the 1st seeded team (64 QP ave.) Beaten in the finals.

Email of who to send the finished product to:
Andy B.

Andy B. (andrew.r.baker@delphiauto.com)

[Wayne C.]

Team : 25

Team Name- Raider Robotix -
Bristol Myers Squibb and North Brunnswick Twp HS, NJ

Robot Name- The Silver Scorpion

Speed- 6-8 ft/sec

# goals grabbed- 2, on the fly- reliably, can grab and detach at will- can also grab a robot at will (but we are nice guys)

Balls- we don't do that- your job!!

Tether- 30 ft +- can go zone to zone, 360 degree rotation- so so

Drive Train- 6 wheel drive- Chiaphua power!!!, WIDE knobby tires-high traction, maneuverable, powerful, brake mechanism, experienced drive crew- no mechanical breakdowns at all -ever-(knock on wood).

2001 Regional results- #4 seed in NJ, Regional FINALIST, Engineering inspiration Award- highest seeding round 135-three rounds over 100 pts- qp ave -78 (not bad for no balls!!!!)

We are an odd team who made it to Florida via the waiting list- hey somebody wants us to be there!!

;)

[Kris Verdeyen]

Team #: 118

Team Name: Robonauts
Robot Name: Valkyrie

Speed (in ft/sec): 10-12 fps in high, 2-3 in low

# of Goals GRABBED: 2, using spears that have a very wide capture envelope. The spears are mounted on a turret that allows us to rotate underneath the goals and point our wheels in any direction. Also on the turret is a steerable "mini-me" style runner that pulls out over 30 feet. We can score in both endzones. We grabbed two goals in every one of our matches, and scored them in all but one. (including elims)


BRIEF description of ball handling and depositing: None.

Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):

Lone Star Regoinal:
4th seed, 1st pick, lost in Finals
Xerox Creativity Award
Motorola Quality Award

Email of who to send the finished product to:
verdeyw at hotmail dot com

[SGopwani]

Team #: 469

Team Name: Las Guerrillas Robot: Cornelius III

Speed: High - 11 ft/sec, Low - 4-5 ft/sec

# of Goals Grabbed: 2 on the fly, and lifted quickly w/driven turret

Ball Handling: Not our style, sorry

Teather To Get Back to Endzone Everytime

Extremely strong drive, can push through robots easily, with versatile driven turret

Regional Results: Champions Buckeye Regional (Picked 2nd? 3rd?) Champions Great Lakes Regional (Picked 1st) Midrange seedings/qp's, won almost every match

Email to Send Results: srg646@hotmail.com

[MChen]

Team #: 41

Team Name: Robo-Warriors

Speed (in ft/sec): High: 8 fps Low: 5 fps

# of Goals GRABBED: 2. From the start, can drive between two goals and lock onto both with pneumatic grippers. We use a heavy-duty tank drive with drill motors. We are virtually immovable once planted in the scoring zone. We can accept goals from teammates and push around other robots when neccesary.

BRIEF description of ball handling and depositing: Can take in 3-4 balls up a tower and shoot them out the back end of our robot, but this function is rarely used.

We also have a tether 'bot that wasn't featured in NYC, but will be used at Nationals.

Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
NYC Regional Finalist

Email of who to send the finished product to: markjchen@hotmail.com

[Aaron Vernon]

Team #: 224

Team Name: The 224th Squeaking Eagles

Speed (in ft/sec): 5.6 ft/sec w/o a goal; 4.9 ft/sec w/ a goal
Drive system uses 4 motors - 2 Drill motors and 2 FP motors

# of Goals GRABBED: 1

BRIEF description of ball handling and depositing:
Use two sets of belts to suck balls up, store them, and dump them into the goal. Can hold and dump 20+ balls at one time.

Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
SBPLI Long Island Regional:
Regional Finalist
#6 seed - 61.00 avg QPs (dropping lowest)
J&J Mid-Atlantic Regional:
Regional Champion
Motorola Quality Award
#2 Seed - 72.82 avg QPs (w/o dropping lowest)
16.36 balls per match
Total stats:
15.24 balls per qualifying match (21 matches)
64.81 avg QP (21 matches)

Email of who to send the finished product to: Aaron Vernon (avernon@psgaus.jnj.com)

[Alavinus]

Team #: 339

Team Name: Rappahanock Robotics

Speed: 5-6 ft/sec

# of goals grabbed: 2

Ball Handling= none

Regional Results:
Regional Alliance Winners @ J and J Mid-Atlantic Competition
We seeded about 19 I think

Special features: We are designed for traction and are able to push other robots and things around. We also have a mini-me send home device

Email: alavinus@yahoo.com

[Wolfe]

Team #: 610

Team Name: Crescent Robotics

Speed: 4-5 ft/sec

# of goals grabbed: 1
-Once we grab on, there is no way you are getting that goal away from us. Grabber works on the fly, and can be fully controlled during the match

Ball Handling= none

Regional Results:
2002 Canadian Regional - Winner
2002 Canadian Regional - Alliance Captain
2002 Canadian Regional - Engineering Inspiration Award

Special features: Robot was designed with an extremly strong drive system, which includes both the drill and chiaphua motors that are geared down for high torque, while still producing alot of speed. The robot has an extremly high amount of traction (which is increased when we have another robot on the wedge, or when we pick up the goal once we have latched on to it), which was shown at the Canadian Regional in the fact that we never had a goal stolen from us. We also have a wedge that can be used to grab other robots and reposition them around the field.

Email: robotics@crescentschool.org

[RebAl]

Team #: 329

Team Name: The R.A.I.D.

Speed (in ft/sec): 6

# of Goals GRABBED: 2

BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: N/A

other: Mouse -- 45 feet tether, 10-13 fps, GREAT steering (and something else for later ;) )
Bot -- AMP, we ABSOLUTELY can not be moved when it is down (14 in dia. covered with non slip tape - 2 215lb ppl cant take the goal from it - tested :D)
-- 6 wheel drive 2 chip 2 drill both have gears, tank steering (turn on near-center, dragged a 130lb guy face down spread on the floor holding on for dear life at 4fps - relucantly tested :D)
-- Once goal grabbers latch the goal it can not be taken away unless we deactivate them

Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc): 8th seed. Av Qp 60.50, Winner of Xerox creativity for our mouse and HUD glasses --- (according to Ed Sparks sheet and soap 108)

Most bots in ARC division (http://www.team329.com/media/2002/pictures/arc/)
Our bot (http://www.team329.com/media/2002/pictures/arc/329-1.jpg)
Glasses (http://www.team329.com/media/2002/pictures/robot/P1210010.JPG)


Email of who to send the finished product to: mung245@hotmail.com

[srawls]

Team #: 122

Team Name: NASA Knights

Speed (in ft/sec): 6 ft/sec

# of Goals GRABBED: 2

BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: has a basket which holds 20 balls. dumps all at once. mostly we load balls from player station, but we do have a ball pick up mechanism.

Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
1st seed in Richmond
finalist in Philly

Email of who to send the finished product to:
srawls@nhgs.tec.va.us

[Wayne C.]

Hey Archimedeans- there are 0ver 70 of you entered in the division but only 17 teams have responded to this thread. Where are the rest of you? You got our data- how about yours?

Sorry this isn't a data posting but it DOES get the post back up to the top of the pile :D

[dkeith]

Team #: 322

Team Name: FIRE

Speed (in ft/sec): 1st: 14 fps, 2nd: 2.8 fps, 3rd: .56 fps

# of Goals GRABBED: 2 goals.

BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: Does not handle balls.

Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
Great Lakes = seeded 57 out of 62, 30.62 average qp.
West Michigan = seeded 11 out of 42- picked third, 68.88 average qp. lost to Chief Delphi in the finals.

Email of who to send the finished product to: dkeith@voyager.net

[Mike Henry]

Team Number: 457

Team Name: Team Gamma

Speed: 3.4 ft/sec

Number of goals handled: one or two

Ball Handling: Good Human Player who is great at making long shots. Robot is only goal oriented.

Regional Results: 35th seed at Lone Star Regionals ( I think ) we were last after 4 matches, then won 4 out of 5. We were picked by Team 34 as a part of the 3rd seed alliance. Then we helped to win 6 straight in the eliminations to win Lone Star. We played in 4 of the 6 matches and contributed in each one. Thanks so much to Team 34 and Team 192, they are great alliance partners.

Email to: jmhenry@swbell.net

[rees2001]

Just trying to keep this up top, thanks to everyone for helping out.

[meaubry]

Team Number: 47

Team Name: Chief Delphi

Speed: didn't measure, but it takes us just under 3 secs. to get to a goal (wish there was a metric for POWER, that would be great to know)

Number of goals handled: one at a time

Ball Handling: We do okay, can gather a few and shake em out - my guess is that most already know about us

Regional Results: top 8 in each regional, made it to semi's, quarters, and finals (won in Grand Rapids) EPCOT is gonna be alot of fun!

Email to: michael.e.aubry@delphiauto.com

[Matt Reiland]

Team #: 226

Team Name: TEC CReW

Speed (in ft/sec): Greater then 10 ft/sec, 4WD/4WS
Our traction not a threat to most high traction robots unless speed is added to the equation

# of Goals GRABBED: 1 automatic with release

BREIF description of ball handling and depositing:Can grab up to
three at a time and deposit, goal does not have to be attached

Other, Basket has fingers that ride on carpet and can pick up any tether including mice, tape measures and lexan and bring them to our scoring zone

Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
GL Seed #33 Average 52.33
WM Seed #26 Average 53.38

Email of who to send the finished product to:
matthew.reiland@gm.com