OZone Robotics is proud to present our 2024 robot.
We will be competing at Week 1 Greater Pittsburgh & Week 6 Miami Valley.
Thank you to all of our generous sponsors, parents, students and mentors.
Feel free to ask any questions about our robot.
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Great looking robot! See you guys in Pittsburgh!
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4611 OZone is very happy to be selected by 325 Respawn Robotics as the first pick of the second alliance at Greater Pittsburgh and being paired with 3504 Girls of Steel to round out the alliance.
All 3 teams will be attending the World Championship after some great playoff matches.
4611 brings home their second ever blue banner along with the Industrial Design award.
We plan to bring this momentum into week 6 Miami Valley Regional and onward to Champs.
Can’t wait to see you all in Houston!
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Congrats Melchior and to the rest of 4611 and alliance partners! After 27 was eliminated in M13 at FIM Kettering 1, we were all cheering when we heard 4611 won. Best of luck for the rest of the season and we’ll see you in Houston! 
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Great showing at GPR 4611! Team 48 love playing with you last year at Buckeye, and were thrilled to see your success this past weekend. See you at MVR!
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4611 cooks
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Congratulations! Great bot and great team! Honestly, the best looking note trajectory I saw at the event.
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So happy I got to see this robot in person at GPR. Your robot was fantastic from auto through the end game along with the students.
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I have to give a shoutout to 8096 for printing some intake parts out of PA6 for us, even with how busy their pit was.
Math checks out for 8096 winning the Gracious Professionalism Award at GPR.
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Out of curiosity, do you open-source your code? I watched your performance at Pittsburgh and your auto align seemed super reliable.
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We will publish our 2024 code at the end of the season as we have in previous years.
Is there anything particular you are wanting to see? We are using a pretty standard photonvison branch.
I was mostly interested in what kind of controller you’re using to line up with the speaker and if you’re using any kind of SOTM algorithm. Whatever controller you’re running also seems to be quite smooth, so that piqued my interest.
We did having a SOTM algorithm at Pittsburgh but our driver didn’t get enough practice with it so he preferred to stay still while shooting. For aligning to the speaker, we just used a PID controller and spent lot of time tuning it.
You Guys Did Great During competition, and hope you guys well during CHAMPS
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A lot has happened since my last post after week 1 with some slight mechanical changes and a lot of software development. Apologies for the long post.
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Before going into week 6 Miami Valley Regional we changed our shooter wheel configuration. We realized from slomo videos during debugging that we weren’t getting much contact with the note on the right side of the shooter wheels due to how the note deformed. We quickly changed to move the right 2 sets of wheels inward 1in and were able to get more consistent shots. With this we were able to shoot from farther away with more confidence.
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We also changed over to Kraken drive with FOC (from falcons) on our SDS MK4i L2 modules with the 16T pionions. This gave us a noticeable difference in speed as we knew center line auton face offs were going to be more common
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OZone ranked 5th at MVR and were the first pick by the first alliance 5667 The Digital Eagles and selected 3193 Falco Tech to round out the alliance. We ended up being finalist overall and were awarded the Industrial Design Award again!
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Between Week 6 and champ we knew we struggled with our amp deflector bar. We add some additional stiffness to the deflector by adding another set of fiberglass rods. This made our amp shot more consistent and gave our drivers the confidence to do more amp shots since we struggled with it at MVR.
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For our intake we moved away from the SHARP IR distance sensor and replaced it with a Banner retroreflective sensor. The SHARP sensor died during MVR and we could never get the replacement one to work as intended. With the new Banner sensor, it was a simple on or off decision in code. We paired that with current sensing to rule out any false positives we saw with the old sensor or noise.
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We developed 4 new autons to help with center line rush. Both our amp side and source side auto had the preloaded note on our bumper so we could drive away as soon as auto started and drop it in a known spot to pick up later. Both of these autos were highly compatible with our alliances as we knew that would be critical for higher level play. We also created a center subwoofer auton that navigated around the spike notes to the center line middle note if we needed to run that. You will notice that some of the paths are longer than 15s, this is built in logic to skip to the next path if a note is missing from pickup. You can see all our champ auto paths on my YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@melchiorvester
We ended up running our source side auto 14 of 15 matches mostly from a compatibility stand point and we never lost a race to the center for our first note -
OZone ranked 8th in Johnson division and were captains of the 7th alliance with 1787 The Flying Circuits, 4766 Team SCREAM Jr., and 325 Respawn Robotics. We finished out as finalist and had an incredible run. OZone was awarded Industrial Design Award for the third time giving us 3 for 3!
Overall this was a huge development year for OZone with our accomplishments. We ranked 3rd in the state of Ohio, brought home 6 trophies, and won our team’s second blue banner. We will be competing in some off season events so feel free to stop by and ask us any questions!
Huge thank you to all our sponsors, parents, students, and mentors this year to help make this possible.
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Yall did great at MVR, and it was great playing along side yall all the way to the finals! 
Awesome machine, and awesome team! Congrats on an amazing season, great to meet some of the students, especially drive team, on the field and also in the airport when they came over to say hi 
That made my day for sure!
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Thanks so much for helping out at FRC worlds!! You were definitely the best emcee in Houston.
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