2004 Survey

[Bcahn836]

1)Team Name__Robobees___________________________

2)Team Number__836__________________________

3)How many people on the team?_50,35 students 13-15 mentors

4)How many guys?__43__________________________

5)How Many girls?____7_______________________

6)What does everyone do_The team is divided into sub teams, electronics, drivetrain, arm and end, programing, animation, manufacturing, strategies, and public relations. _______________________________
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Design Questions
1) How long does it take to design various things on your robot (hours, days)
one week to two weeks

2) Do you prototype first?__Yes____________________________

3) How many people design things?___The whole team

4) How many people build things?_Not everyone has a part in the building of the robot like public relations and animation they are very busy doing things in their specified area.

5) How many hours a day do people put in towards the robot?
On a school night on the six week crunch we arrive at 5:30 and most everyone leaves around 8:30-9:00, but some stay after untill they are done with the project they started that night. On a weekend some of us get their around 8:00 am and don't leave untill 9:00 or 10:00 pm

6) Do you get professional engineers to help your team, or is it all teachers and students?
We have two teacher mentors who teach engineering and we have about 12 mentors that are all different types of engineers and work for many of our sponsers, we also have parents, for example my father is an electronics tech and usuallly comes and helps out whenever he can.

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Strategy Questions

1) How much experience do your drivers have? (years)
Robot controll 2 years, Arm controll 1 year

2) How much experience did your drivers get with the robot?
We practiced before we got the new game with the years past robots, one was 2 wheel drive and the other 4 wheel drive and had tryouts for rookies.
we practiced alot.

3) Do you design to do everything well, or do you design to do one specific task extraordinarily?
What ever the team decides the task should be we design to but if we get some ideas to improve we improve.

4) Do you have a very special thing on your robot, some cool design or whatnot? and If so what is it. Please describe it.

Every year we have had a solid aluminum drive plate and we have yet to see another team use one, also our electronics board is mounted upside down. we also have some custom made pulleys made from PVC pipe and viynal siding.


5) How much work did you put into the autonomous mode?
Even before the game was released we were working on an auto program.

6) What does your autonomous do?
Line track and dead reckon at the small mobile goal so we can be in position to move and uncap it.

Other information
Speed (fps)
8-10 fps

Robustness (1-10) (10 being highest)
9 we didn't break any thing just bent our plow in defense.
Agility (1-10)
7


During the competition, did you feel that your alliance partner let your team down in some way? Did you let your alliance partner down in any way?

Just about all the time, we would discuss a set game plan and our alliance would change thier minds at the last second and throw off the whole game plan, i know we have also said we could do something and fail as well and it happens, but it happens alot to us.



Where were you seeded before the finals round started (at the end of the qualification matches?) at atlanta 70th

Did you win any awards during the competition (spirit, leadership in control, etc.?) Not this year

Personal Info

What is your name?
Brad C.
Age?
17
How long have you been on the team?
2 years and counting
What was your role on the team?
Team captain, Captain of the arm and end team,and strategies, i also drive the arms of the robot. I also train the rookies in how to drive the robot, i also give presentations to companies to try to get sponsership. i also demonstrate the robot to the parents on the final days.