2011 Curie Division

[Kevin Sevcik]

Alright, fine. So here's 57 along with some brief specs. Pictures courtesy Ron Gillory, http://www.sezron.com:
- Half-Octanum* drive (4 Mecanums, 2 Stickies), never measured it, but about 12-15fps in Mecanum
- Pivot-telescoping arm
- Spring-loaded Roller Claw, driven by two independent RS-395s through 131:1 P60s. Spring loading = Who cares about over-inflation? Also, rotating a square around the corner is just amusing.
- New for Champs, 1.2s (fully charged) minibot, with a pretty reliable and forgiving deployment. Should be about 1.5-1.7 with deploy.
- Reliable High-Uber Autonomous, once we work out the distances.
- Regularly scoring 2 High logos by our lonesome.

I'm rather pleased with the whole robot at this point. Our biggest letdown was our original Big'n'Slow(tm) minibot that didn't even benefit from reliability. We've since cribbed notes from the Discobots (2587), improving their design and working out a rather faster "align-wait-fire" style deployment system. I'm told by my students and co-mentors that I'm banned from further tweaking on the minibot, so this looks like what we're going with.

The only thing I'd change at this point is the half-Octanum*. We started with a whole Octanum* and ended up about 6 lbs over, so the choice was pretty obvious. If anyone has 6 lbs of robot weight to lend us, we'd looooove to toss the other half on. As it is, we'll have it available to us at Champs to swap in some lower geared stickies, and in case of extreme emergency. (eg. Oh no, the arm's a pretzel!)

*Yes, I know the accepted spelling is Octocanum. I think mine's easier to say and just as descriptive.

[Cyberphil]

Here is 103. With the same lift and gripper design as 25, this machine is one of the best bots we have ever created. (Pictures courtesy of Kelly Szymanowski(my sister))

• 6wd 1/10 drop center drive with 8" AM preformance wheels driven by all four cims with AM super shifter (pneumatic actuating) allowing for speeds up to 16 FPS in high and 8 FPS in low
• Essentially the same gear-driven drive-train for the past four years with some slight, but ever so helpful tweaks (Hex shafts new this year)
• Three stage lift driven by four BB 775's with worm-drive transmission (to eliminate backdriving)
• Inside tube gripper actuated by a pneumatic cylinder allowing for universal and simple pickup (extremely good for transporting tubes also)
• Gripper tilt (pneumatic actuated) to allow for extremely easy capping
• 1.4 second minibit, total of about 1.8 second MB+deployment
• Scored two high logos alone most matches without defense
• Plays very well against defense
• Can even play some great defense (we only know this because our belt came loose one match, which by the way is fixed)
• Hangs Ubertube for the majority of the matches, but with two slight timing changes, we will have it 100%

The biggest problem we have is the swaying of the tower. It was designed with a spring system in the bottom, but it swayed way too much with that, so we added a strut with a dampener to make it more sturdy. That solved that problem for the most part. Other than that, I would say our second biggest weakness is our minibot deployment. It is not extremely fast, but it is reliable. The only problem with deployment is that we use the shifters to launch it out, so we cannot switch gears until the end of the match or the minibot will launch without us wanting it to.

[SammyKay]

I must ask...how did everyone get the Curie Division logos in their signatures?

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by SammyKay

I must ask...how did everyone get the Curie Division logos in their signatures?

Check out this thread

[SammyKay]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

Check out this thread

Thanks!!

[princessnatalie]

Here is 2471's robot, Wallace.

Placing a tube

Deploying Minibot

After placing tube

[twetherbee]

Originally Posted by twetherbee

Team 987's 2011 robot "Jackpott"....more info to come.

Promo video just uploaded to YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLbaKXVKSos

Robot Specs:
2 speed custom gearbox (4th Gen. 987 ball shifter design)
6w drive with lowered center wheel
Single and Double tube autonomous (line following)
Scores from the front and rear of robot
Telescoping arm
Powered Roller claw
Pick up from floor or lanes
~1.3 sec minibot with deployment

Less than 9 days to go!!!!!! See you all soon.....

Also, highlights from San Diego with version 1 auto and minibot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MALNBCu5lw&NR=1

[Akash Rastogi]

2056 and 987 will be playing in Einstein again. *knocks on wood*

[twetherbee]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

*knocks on wood*

Thanks for that....and the compliment.

...maybe it'll be 2056, 987, and 3553 on Einstein? *knocks on wood*

We're all curious to see how the unique 3553 design will fare in St. Louis. Too bad you won't be able to make it, Akash.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by twetherbee

Too bad you won't be able to make it, Akash.

Dustin Benedict (mentor of 816 aka TheFro) will be taking over my position for St. Louis. I believe he will also be drive coach. Since Dustin is a driver who took down 175 and 254 in 2009, I trust his drive coach capabilities.

[mr.roboto2826]

Wave Robotics Is excited to play on curie this Year! Our Robot info can be found at http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...=Wave+Robotics and match videos of wisconsin are availabe here http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...onal+2011&aq=f

[twetherbee]

Originally Posted by Adam Freeman

Here are some pictures of our robot from the Michigan State Championship by Daniel Ernst:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniele...57626489666450

This is a great picture of 67 and 1023 with the play-by-play announcers in the background. That TV broadcast was awesome. I'm glad it was uploaded to YouTube. Amazing matches!

[Nick Bouressa]

166 made it into the elimination matches at both of our regionals this year, with out a minibot or autonomous. We are able to hang 2 top row logos each match, and now we have a 2.8-3 second minibot and autonomous so we should do well!

Us winning 3v1 in Las Vegas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyOjqA2hPSQ

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Nick Bouressa

166 made it into the elimination matches at both of our regionals this year, with out a minibot or autonomous. We are able to hang 2 top row logos each match, and now we have a 2.8-3 second minibot and autonomous so we should do well!

Us winning 3v1 in Las Vegas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyOjqA2hPSQ

I assume that the shock therapy since LV has persuaded your driver to do a better job avoiding your opponent's LANE?

[Nick Bouressa]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

I assume that the shock therapy since LV has persuaded your driver to do a better job avoiding your opponent's LANE?

That was actually intentional. (my dad is the drive coach) We wanted to get more practice hanging and because it was a practice match he figured it did not matter. If you watch carfully you can se that the driver hesitates before entering the lane, he knew it was a penalty but my dad said to go so he did.