So many incredible decisions made with this bot. Using the field wall as a hard stop/reference for picking hatches off the loading station/scoring them on the rocket, are you kidding me? Your drivers must love your designers (if they’re not one and the same). Best of luck this year!
How do you pick up the balls? I can’t seem to figure it out. Also great job on the robot it looks really awesome and seems to be programmed really well
It looks like there is a clear band that goes around the back side of the ball after it is fed into it from the rollers. If you pause the video at 0:43 you can see the semi-circular clear band that acts as a back-stop. This is quite ingenious as it is super light weight and won’t cause damage to the fragile cargo. If you look really closely at the video when they are holding the ball you can see (barely) that it is held on that way.
I’m only curious about the consistency of it, but with their ability to place hatch panels in such a short cycle they can afford to miss a ball or two on the first attempt.
For the intake the wheels are hidden right below the disk place and the Polly carb band is the back stop. The hardest part was making sure it fit in starting config holding a disk. The Pollycarb band allowed us more flexibility. There is always room for improvement will continue to iterate the EOAT.
After many test we came to the very similar conclusion as the grasshoppers their blog really helped accelerate some of our testing. Pushing the disk with 2 pistons just wasn’t doing it. We needed the 2 DOF when placing to assure it was placed before released. No time to drop disk this year. This placer really helped us keep our wall path driving and packaging needed for our EOAT.
Thanks we appreciate it. Also wanted to thank your team for posting your development process. Was a great tool for are students to learn from. As you can see we were a big fan of your placer.
