[Tungrus]

Did you find out or try to find out why your robot could not score any points during a competition match? i can understand your frustration after the match with zero contribution to your alliance, we have been there and felt the pain. In our case it was not robot, robot was good on practice field and it performed as expected in many matches. We had taken extreme care to make sure our electrical and mechanical was sound. Sometimes the drivers' under lot of pressure deviate from the original strategy and when they mess up once, they will not be able to recover in 2 minute match. Sometime the drive team members discuss during a match, which causes them to lose focus. We talk to our drive team and calm them down, it is not easy.

As far as Quality, our robot is not the highest scoring one, but we do a good job inspecting everything during the build season as well as between matches. We make sure all fasteners are as they are supposed to be. We double check electrical connections (no dangling wires, tape them), tighten the terminal screws on motor controller (if any), make sure the circuit breakers/fuses are in place, the nuts on main circuit breaker are tight. The nuts/screws on the main circuit breaker and the motor controller are probably most ignored ones, and these things can get loose due to vibration. Also we make sure battery terminals are secured.

I am interested in seeing some formal Quality Control doc and how other teams deal with this.