So...a couple of things in response to questions that have been brought up about our team and robot.
Our design process is a bit abnormal...
Right after kick off we divide up into four separate teams. Each team designs a robot using a worksheet that our team uses.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing
Each team then does a CADD mock up using autodesk inventor during week 1. On Friday night we invite the community. This year we had over 100 people show up for this event.
Each team presents their idea in a 10 minute presentation, and then the entire team leaves the room.
The community including some graduated team members then argue about which design the team should build. This year they chose two different designs and combined them. (We will post the video of this soon...We are waiting for our Video Productions class to finish editing it down.)
We then spend week 2 doing a final CADD of the entire robot. We also use some of this time to prototype things to see what works.
Then we get to work actually building a robot. Week 3 is for Fabrication, and week 4 is for final assembly. We are pretty well on schedule at this point having finished welding our base frame today, and cutting out most of the parts for both lifting mechanisms.
So...This years robot.
We are using 1 lift mechanism to try to do a 3 tote autonomous stack. The plan is to pick up 2 of the totes, and then push the third into position dropping the two we lifted down on top of it. We are planning 3 seconds per tote with a few seconds in between which we understand is ambitious.
We then have a multi-purpose lift mechanism which we plan to use for totes and recycle bins.
We are using a halonomic(sp?) drive base.
Earlier in the thread we linked to a Github which has all of our CADD files posted in it. We have also posted renders of our robot. We will post more in the next few days.
Currently our base is driving around. we will be adding to it tomorrow...
We will post more at the end of the day.
best of luck to all teams.
Edoga