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My team has about 25 students and 10 engineers. We break up into multiple groups with each technical group consisting of an engineer, student lead or the team captain, and 3-5 students. (5-7 people total) In this year and years past we broke up into these following teams. The large number of temas is so that that the studends get to specialize in the area that interests them most and get to learn well at least one aspect of the robot. However, any student can be called upon by any other team to work with them when the need arises.
Vehicle Team- They build the drive system of the robot.
Manipulator Team- They build the device on the robot that manipulates and handles balls, floppies, etc.
Pneumatics team- they work with pneumatics.
Electrical Team- They do all the wiring on the robot
Controls team- They do all the programming on the robot but do not actually drive the robot. (The team captain does that)
Additionally, we have small non-technical subteams made up of students all ready on a technical team but have extra time. My team does not do an animation. These teams iclude:
Rules Compliance/Weight Control (1 person)
Administration/Cost Control (2 people)
Chairmans award/Public relations (the entire team)
Team Safety (1 person) (me)
Inter-team relations/check CD daily (3 people)
This is out 4th year and so far this system of doing things has worked well for us.
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