Criteria for tetra manipulators

Technical Technical Discussion
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This stuff is obvious to most people, but I made this to hand to rookies before they start giving me wild and unpractical designs on monday. It’s a draft, so I’m open to suggestions on it.

Attached to this post is the same outline, except it is in a word document and properly formatted.

Criteria for tetra manipulators

  1. RELIABILITY
    a) Ease of use[INDENT]
    i) Driver
    ii) Human player
    b) Dropping
    i) Properly picking up
    ii) Properly moving
    c) Capping
    i) Bump resistance
    ii) Able to cap at any angle
    d) Mechanical failure
    e) Simplicity[/INDENT]
  2. VERSATILITY
    a) Short goals
    b) Autonomous mode[INDENT]
    i) Hanging tetras
    ii) Vision tetras
    c) Loading stations
    i) Human player stations
    ii) Automatic loading stations
    d) High goals
    e) Stacks
    i) Making stacks
    ii) Covering stacks[/INDENT]
  3. SPEED
    a) Grabbing speed
    b) Capping speed

Other desirable features:

  1. The ability to correct the robot after tipping.
  2. A low center of gravity to prevent tipping
  3. Low weight
  4. Quickly serviceable

    Criteria for manipulator.doc (26.5 KB)


    Criteria for manipulator.doc (26.5 KB)
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Remember to design with autonomus in mind! What’s easy for a driver to use may not be easy to program for…

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I agree autonomus mode is very important to the arm design otherwise you severly limit your autonomous options later on

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I took your suggestions and updated the post above. I also added a few more things. Again, this is mostly basic stuff (low center of gravity, light weight, etc), but hopefully it will help some of the rookies in the team generate ideas.