Ball auger/screw

[WarehouseCrew]

You are correct that we are trying to position the ball to the center or perhaps one side.

For those of you who have seen a farm combine work, it uses a wide pick up mechanism (eg. corn head or bean head) and has a rotating shaft (each side has auger/screw to push to the middle) at the back of the head to pull the grain to the middle of the combine.

I could not find a picture of Team 111 Wildstang, but the video made it look like they had side plates that funneled the ball to the center.

[Dr Theta]

Here is a picture of their 2009 bot from CD's Media: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32952

As you said it appears that they are using angled plates in addition to the spiraling. Here is another picture of the rollers: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32855

We are also planning on doing something like this to our initial intake leading to our conveyor system. I hope those links help as a proof of concept. Good luck! We'll see you at 10k Lakes and hopefully at a pre-ship scrimmage.