pic: 4242 2014 CAD 1

[apm4242]

Originally Posted by cmrnpizzo14

I like it, looks simple and reliable. Someone will need to be the first leg of every alliance. Could you post some brief robot functions? I'm assuming it can score in the low goal if need be but can it pick up off of the ground? How is its catching ability?

Nice render by the way, looks classy.

Thanks! Simple is what we were going for. Some ideas/functions:

Autonomous: Drive to low goal, deposit the ball, reverse to starting position (for better field position).

Teleop: The idea is to be easily fed from the human player and not have to pickup from the floor. If necessary, we can do floor pickup, but we'd have to trap the ball first. If we're doing our job, this shouldn't happen. The orthogonal wheel configuration allows us to move the ball in all directions when on the robot. It's not completely assembled so we haven't tried catching yet, but hopefully when the up/down wheels are spinning, it should make catching easier. We'll see...

It's a 4 CIM kitbot but we geared down to 10.71:1. We might swap out the tough boxes for 3CIM4U's.

Questions, comments, and criticisms are welcome! Tell me something I haven't thought of yet!