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Originally Posted by serenagh
Does anyone have a pre-match checklist they're willing to share/ suggestions? This sounds like a really great idea. I can imagine what the pit one would look like/include- what about the one for drivers? Thanks  |
We have a whole series of checklists - one for each subsystem of the robot (drive, electronics, pneumatics, chassis/structural, manipulator 1, manipulator 2, etc.). The check lists are made each year specifically for each system. Two students are responsible for each check list. The use a "call/response" system:
Student 1 (reading from checklist notebook): "Chain at proper tension?".
Student 2 (checks chain tension) "Chain at proper tension."
Student 1 (Checks of item): "Chain at proper tension - check."
Then they move on to the next item.
All the system checks are done immediately after the robot comes off the field. There is a final "list of lists" that is checked off to confirm that everything is done. There is a new list for every match.
Right before the match, there is a "Power up check" done the same way, but this actually tests the functionality of the robot (things like "lift runs up", "upper limit switch operates", etc.
It may seem like a lot, but that's what the small swarm of students are doing around our robots holding all of those black notebooks. It has worked very well for us, finding things that could have been problems before they occur and (more often than I'd like to admit) finding that something that had failed had not actually been checked after the previous match - everything is initialed, so we can figure out how things go wrong.
The lists are best if they are made specifically for your robot and it's functionality.
- Mr. Van
Coach, Robodox