subteams?

[mehtank]

do your teams break into subteams for each subsystem on your bot? how many people do you usually need per group so that it functions well?

-ankur

[turbidum]

Well, our team isn't that well organized, but we do have different sub-teams. They are as follows:

strategy
design and planning
chairman's award
website
animation

For the sub-teams, there are about 3 people or so who are definitely on a sub-team, but others can meet with them or help if they want. The strategy team has a base team of 2, the chairman's award has about 5 (I think), the website has about 3, the animation team about 4 or so. The design and planning team is basically the entire team, but there are those who take leadership roles in it. Normally, we have meetings for the different teams on different days, but there are times, during the design meetings, that some sub-teams might break off in order to work.

[bigqueue]

Originally posted by mehtank
do your teams break into subteams for each subsystem on your bot? how many people do you usually need per group so that it functions well?

-ankur

We are a rookie team, but we have tried to have a sort of structure to allow us to break the very BIG problem into more managable bits.

Our organization can be seen on our webpage....and each subteam has a "one-pager" description of our purpose, responsibilities and goals on it.

Our page dealing with our organization can be found at:
http://www.bghs.org/first/subteams/subteams.htm

(although I think a couple of those subteams have collapsed together)

-Quentin

[Kris Verdeyen]

Our team also breaks into groups- except that we're all (engineers included) assigned to one part of the robot -


Last year's subsytems were:
Chassis/Drive train
Goals/Stretcher
Balls
Controls

We do the overall strategy and decide our design parameters as a team before we start building, and leave it up to the subsystems as to how it is accomplished. For example, last year we decided to go under the bar and handle the large balls as a large group, then sent off the drive train and big balls subsystems to try to rectify these disparate goals. (which they did)

As far as chairman's award, website and animation, these are handled by team members above and beyond their subsytem assignments.


And finally, the number of people on each subsystem on the specific nature of the beast. Drivetrain typically has a lot of people working on it (8 or 9), but some smaller subsystems can get by with 5 or 6.

[Sean_330]

My team has about 25 students and 10 engineers. We break up into multiple groups with each technical group consisting of an engineer, student lead or the team captain, and 3-5 students. (5-7 people total) In this year and years past we broke up into these following teams. The large number of temas is so that that the studends get to specialize in the area that interests them most and get to learn well at least one aspect of the robot. However, any student can be called upon by any other team to work with them when the need arises.


Vehicle Team- They build the drive system of the robot.

Manipulator Team- They build the device on the robot that manipulates and handles balls, floppies, etc.

Pneumatics team- they work with pneumatics.

Electrical Team- They do all the wiring on the robot

Controls team- They do all the programming on the robot but do not actually drive the robot. (The team captain does that)


Additionally, we have small non-technical subteams made up of students all ready on a technical team but have extra time. My team does not do an animation. These teams iclude:

Rules Compliance/Weight Control (1 person)

Administration/Cost Control (2 people)

Chairmans award/Public relations (the entire team)

Team Safety (1 person) (me)

Inter-team relations/check CD daily (3 people)

This is out 4th year and so far this system of doing things has worked well for us.

[Jeff Waegelin]

We have around 25 people total, so we don't really have subteams with set members, but rather a chairman for each subteam, one or two people in each team, and the rest of the people help out various subteams as needed.

We have:

Chairman's Award
Spirit/Event Stuff
Programming
Electrical
Pneumatics
Design
Building

Some subteams are bigger than others, but all of them are fairly loosely organized, and members overlap in different areas (especially in the building and design teams).

[Katie Reynolds]

We have about 20 active members on our team and 10-15 engineers, and three teachers. We break down into the following subsystems:

Chairman's Award
PR/Marketing (during the off-season)
Controls
- Electrical
- Programming
Machining
Grabber
Drive
CAD
Animations
Financing
Strategy

- Katie

[Christina]

Lets see...810 has a few different groups. We have about 30 (total) people on this team.

Mechanical
Electrical
Pneumatics
Controllers/programmers
Website
Finance
Public Relations

I think that's about it.

~Christina

[Pengiun Joe]

Well, over at 66 we break up into a PR group, an animation group. And then the robot team breaks up into drive train, electrical, and whatever else the robot happens to do for that year (yeah right, like I'm gonna give it away).

[Tom Fennell]

With almost 50 students and a good handful of engineers and other technical personnel, We break up into several subteams, such as:

-Software (Which further breaks down into specific tasks)
-Mechanical
-Ball Handling
-Drive System
-Goal Control
-Website
-Rules Gurus

Needless to say, we've got more than enough tasks for all of these people!

-Tom