BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: Can suck up 3 balls wide. Max basket capacity is 20 balls. Uses a row of wooden slats to act as a basket and blanket. raises up one end of the slats and balls just roll in. simple but very effective.
Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):NYC: 5th seed 67 qp, lost in 1/4’s. UTC: 4th seed 87 qp, Won.
BREIF description of ball/goal handling and depositing: We are able to get two goals of the start and can easily grab the third with our front grabbers or can have another team feed us the third in the endzone, all three grippers can easily deposit goals, and all the grabbers are seperate so we can let go of one or two or three at any time and re-grab them if needed
*other features:
~Three wheeled drive for extra maneuverability (powered by three drill motors)
~Can shift gears at any speed
~Forklift-like device to move a robot that is immobilized
~Pneumatic “skirt” that drops down to immobilize in a goal scoring zone
~Steerable, 40 ft. send home device
(just my little selling job :D)
Regional results: Seeded 29th in Silicon Valley (avg. qps: 47); chosen by 6th seeded team
Seeded 21st in Southern California (avg. qps: 59.5); chosen by 1st seeded team and won.
BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: none
Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
NYC - Fifth place, motorola quality award
Canada - Finalists (8th seed after qualifiers), GM Industrial Design Award
Other Features: Ability to lift side of goal while extending a second set of wheels. Doubles normal force of wheels on ground for added traction in addition to providing a 3:1 torque vs. speed exchange. Ability to independently grab and release each goal.
BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: removed damaged ball kicker & will be replacing with replica of rear grabber. Very effective auto grab. Lift goals to improve power & mobility.
Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
NYC #2 seed 78.44 average points.
Delphi "Driving Tomorrow’s Technology” Award
BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: Can collect and store up to 22 balls, usually getting 15-20 within 45 seconds. Can dump quickly and reliably (pivoted basket)
Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
Buckeye Regional: 9th seed, picked in first round by 4th seed (mid 60’s QP ave.) Beaten in the semi-finals.
Motorola Midwest Regional: 8th seed, picked first by the 1st seeded team (64 QP ave.) Beaten in the finals.
Email of who to send the finished product to:
Andy B.
of Goals GRABBED: 2, using spears that have a very wide capture envelope. The spears are mounted on a turret that allows us to rotate underneath the goals and point our wheels in any direction. Also on the turret is a steerable “mini-me” style runner that pulls out over 30 feet. We can score in both endzones. We grabbed two goals in every one of our matches, and scored them in all but one. (including elims)
BRIEF description of ball handling and depositing: None.
Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
Lone Star Regoinal:
4th seed, 1st pick, lost in Finals
Xerox Creativity Award
Motorola Quality Award
Email of who to send the finished product to:
verdeyw at hotmail dot com
of Goals Grabbed: 2 on the fly, and lifted quickly w/driven turret
Ball Handling: Not our style, sorry
Teather To Get Back to Endzone Everytime
Extremely strong drive, can push through robots easily, with versatile driven turret
Regional Results: Champions Buckeye Regional (Picked 2nd? 3rd?) Champions Great Lakes Regional (Picked 1st) Midrange seedings/qp’s, won almost every match
of Goals GRABBED: 2. From the start, can drive between two goals and lock onto both with pneumatic grippers. We use a heavy-duty tank drive with drill motors. We are virtually immovable once planted in the scoring zone. We can accept goals from teammates and push around other robots when neccesary.
BRIEF description of ball handling and depositing: Can take in 3-4 balls up a tower and shoot them out the back end of our robot, but this function is rarely used.
We also have a tether 'bot that wasn’t featured in NYC, but will be used at Nationals.
Speed (in ft/sec): 5.6 ft/sec w/o a goal; 4.9 ft/sec w/ a goal
Drive system uses 4 motors - 2 Drill motors and 2 FP motors
of Goals GRABBED: 1
BRIEF description of ball handling and depositing:
Use two sets of belts to suck balls up, store them, and dump them into the goal. Can hold and dump 20+ balls at one time.
Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
SBPLI Long Island Regional:
Regional Finalist 6 seed - 61.00 avg QPs (dropping lowest)
J&J Mid-Atlantic Regional:
Regional Champion
Motorola Quality Award 2 Seed - 72.82 avg QPs (w/o dropping lowest)
16.36 balls per match
Total stats:
15.24 balls per qualifying match (21 matches)
64.81 avg QP (21 matches)
Email of who to send the finished product to: Aaron Vernon
-Once we grab on, there is no way you are getting that goal away from us. Grabber works on the fly, and can be fully controlled during the match
Ball Handling= none
Regional Results:
2002 Canadian Regional - Winner
2002 Canadian Regional - Alliance Captain
2002 Canadian Regional - Engineering Inspiration Award
Special features: Robot was designed with an extremly strong drive system, which includes both the drill and chiaphua motors that are geared down for high torque, while still producing alot of speed. The robot has an extremly high amount of traction (which is increased when we have another robot on the wedge, or when we pick up the goal once we have latched on to it), which was shown at the Canadian Regional in the fact that we never had a goal stolen from us. We also have a wedge that can be used to grab other robots and reposition them around the field.
BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: N/A
other: Mouse – 45 feet tether, 10-13 fps, GREAT steering (and something else for later )
Bot – AMP, we ABSOLUTELY can not be moved when it is down (14 in dia. covered with non slip tape - 2 215lb ppl cant take the goal from it - tested :D)
– 6 wheel drive 2 chip 2 drill both have gears, tank steering (turn on near-center, dragged a 130lb guy face down spread on the floor holding on for dear life at 4fps - relucantly tested :D)
– Once goal grabbers latch the goal it can not be taken away unless we deactivate them
Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc): 8th seed. Av Qp 60.50, Winner of Xerox creativity for our mouse and HUD glasses — (according to Ed Sparks sheet and soap 108)
BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: has a basket which holds 20 balls. dumps all at once. mostly we load balls from player station, but we do have a ball pick up mechanism.
Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
1st seed in Richmond
finalist in Philly
Hey Archimedeans- there are 0ver 70 of you entered in the division but only 17 teams have responded to this thread. Where are the rest of you? You got our data- how about yours?
Sorry this isn’t a data posting but it DOES get the post back up to the top of the pile
BREIF description of ball handling and depositing: Does not handle balls.
Regional Results (seeds, avg qp, winners, etc):
Great Lakes = seeded 57 out of 62, 30.62 average qp.
West Michigan = seeded 11 out of 42- picked third, 68.88 average qp. lost to Chief Delphi in the finals.
