[Ri3D] Team Indiana Powered By AndyMark (And Corn)

[PurpleInk]

I was so excited to finally be able to share this with everyone! Thanks for the positive comments, everyone

[ratdude747]

Looks nice, good concept that I can see teams refining into some pretty slick robots.

Yay Indiana.

[DiehardCybercard]

Hey friends with robots.

This CAD is model that we created during robot in 3 days. It is missing some of the features that were in the final design seen in the reveal video. We still wanted to provide this so you all can take a better look at the details we do have.

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[jds2001]

Can you provide the original files, in whatever format you desire? I'd like to get a bit of a closer look at the elevator mechanism if that's possible.

[DiehardCybercard]

Originally Posted by jds200

Can you provide the original files, in whatever format you desire? I'd like to get a bit of a closer look at the elevator mechanism if that's possible.

Sorry Jon, I'm gonna have to decline your request on that . I don't know if all the teams are this way but we don't want to release measurements. We want our Ri3D effort to be an inspiration and a spring board. We wish for teams to improve upon what we've done. With that in mind we had decided not to release measurements so the basic concept cannot be copied. Sorry to let you down on that front. I can see if the engineering team can get a closer view of what we do have, however. (I do recall the view we have ins't very near the lift).

[jds2001]

Originally Posted by DiehardCybercard

Sorry to let you down on that front. I can see if the engineering team can get a closer view of what we do have, however. (I do recall the view we have ins't very near the lift).

This makes a lot of sense Brett. Mainly what I was planning on doing is hiding the totes at the front, and getting a bit better view of what's going on with the lift assembly (if there's a video you can point me to even that would be great). I certainly wasn't planning on wholesale copying the design!

[DiehardCybercard]

Originally Posted by jds200

This makes a lot of sense Brett. Mainly what I was planning on doing is hiding the totes at the front, and getting a bit better view of what's going on with the lift assembly (if there's a video you can point me to even that would be great). I certainly wasn't planning on wholesale copying the design!

I've got a bug in the engineer's ear. If he gets a moment to send that to me later Ill put it up. The only video we really have of the lift is the reveal video, unfortunately.

[BoilerMentor]

Originally Posted by jds200

This makes a lot of sense Brett. Mainly what I was planning on doing is hiding the totes at the front, and getting a bit better view of what's going on with the lift assembly (if there's a video you can point me to even that would be great). I certainly wasn't planning on wholesale copying the design!

We'd certainly have no problems answering questions you might have about the mechanism. Just leave them here and we'll field them as we are able.

[Mr. B]

At the end of the video, the arms lift a can into position. Is the robot as shown able to pick up both totes and cans. Does the lexan offset pieces allow the arms to go over the can or how does the robot get the can
Thanks

[BoilerMentor]

Originally Posted by Mr. B

At the end of the video, the arms lift a can into position. Is the robot as shown able to pick up both totes and cans. Does the lexan offset pieces allow the arms to go over the can or how does the robot get the can
Thanks

This falls squarely into the realm of happy coincidence. The morning of the last day (after we'd been in the shop all night) I said, "Huh, I wonder...." The gripper as configured could pick up totes if given a solid surface to press them against. The forks would flex slightly apart and it wasn't pretty, but I'm sure it could be optimized to work for both game pieces. The basis of the effect was the limited lateral support of the forks and the fact that they were spaced further apart already to allow clearance for the totes.

[PurpleInk]

Originally Posted by BoilerMentor

This falls squarely into the realm of happy coincidence. The morning of the last day (after we'd been in the shop all night) I said, "Huh, I wonder...." The gripper as configured could pick up totes if given a solid surface to press them against. The forks would flex slightly apart and it wasn't pretty, but I'm sure it could be optimized to work for both game pieces. The basis of the effect was the limited lateral support of the forks and the fact that they were spaced further apart already to allow clearance for the totes.

He misspoke. The gripper as designed picks up the totes anywhere on the field. We discovered that the gripper could pick up the recycling containers if we pushed them against a solid surface such as the wall.

This twitter post is a little bit of a better view and you can see how it holds the can.

[jds2001]

My question was around the gearbox. I'm not familiar with the Modulox gearbox, are there one or two of them (I see two CIM's on the back, so I'd assume two??). The output drives a cam that drives a chain?

[PurpleInk]

Originally Posted by jds200

My question was around the gearbox. I'm not familiar with the Modulox gearbox, are there one or two of them (I see two CIM's on the back, so I'd assume two??). The output drives a cam that drives a chain?

Two 2.5" CIM motors drove the modulox gearbox. We used a two-slot modulox gearbox. The gearbox had a custom output shaft (8mm with 2mm keyway) that went into a RAW box. Then, a custom hex shaft was machined to interface with two bevel boxes (one at each side of the robot). The gearbox was up-driven 2:1 to offset the bevel box's 2:1 reduction.