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Re: Dedicated Empty Cell Handler?
The strategy that drove our robot design is securey delivering ECs to airlocks from the outpost. In autonomous we'll head toward our outpost and be ready to pick up an EC. Then in teleoperated we'll head to the airlock to offload. W'll repeat the sequence as long as needed. Our mechanism is a chute and small helix that enables us to very effectively pick balls off the floor one-at-time. The helix is capped by a high angle shooter designed to launch balls into the airlock. We can also collect regular balls off the floor to deliver to the PS to shoot if there are no ECs available. We can collect and store 7 balls before off loading them. Our robot performed well during scrimmage and our PS was able to score SCs during the last 20 seconds quite often.
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