Robot Reveal: 179 Children of The Swamp 2015

[MARS_James]

Team 179 Children of the Swamp proudly presents our robot for Recycle Rush: Swampthing 2015!

Feel free to comment with questions

[orangemoore]

Very cool use of Mecanums on the Recycling Containers.

[JakeD]

The mechanum wheels lifting the recycling container inside the gripper is one of the most clever design choices I've seen all year.

[GuyM142]

Amazing claw! Great use of mecanum wheels.

[The_ShamWOW88]

That robot is amazing as a whole but...

Dat claw doe....

[Sperkowsky]

I thought 118s claw was amazing this is just umm I'm done.

[nlknauss]

My favorite claw so far this year! I always look forward to your robots, this one knocks it out of the park.

Nate

[AllenGregoryIV]

Did we miscount or does the claw have 7 actuations, counting it's lift?

Also how much of the up and down motion of the RC is from the mecanum wheels and how much is from the rear wheel?

Very cool robot, I'm looking forward to inspecting this thing at Bayou.

[Jefferson]

Anyone else notice the mecanums on the claw? That was pretty cool.

[GarrettF2395]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you either really over engineered that Go-Pro mount, or you've got an RC grabber in the works

Great robot guys, you all did a fantastic job with each game aspect.

[Anthony Galea]

Wow. Just wow. That is all I have to say.

[Jetweb]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

Did we miscount or does the claw have 7 actuations, counting it's lift?

Also how much of the up and down motion of the RC is from the mecanum wheels and how much is from the rear wheel?

It really takes all 3 wheels to get the motion shown, the original design had omni-wheels in the front and a traction wheel in the back and was not very effective. After last year using mecanums on our intake (borrowed from 1986) the student designer decided to try the mecanums wheels and it worked way better than we could have hoped for. There were quite a few iterations made to bring everything together.

The claw itself has 2 pistons, and 3 motors for the mecanums and rear strafe wheel. The claw is mounted on a pan-tilt mechanism for picking up cans from there left or right sides, as well as the pan action for topping our own stacks and better CG while driving without any totes.

[bkahl]

Those mecanum wheels on the claw... genious.

Solid robot guys!

[Gregor]

The mecanum claw left me speechless.

Looks like we're putting in a VEX order tomorrow...

[OWilliamson]

That recycling container pickup is awesome. I love the degrees of freedom you have with it, and the mecanum wheels are amazing as well.

Good luck in competition!