FANGV is geared up and ready for kickoff! Follow along with our progress on our daily livestreams, links below:
Saturday 1/4 Livestream
Stream Schedule (times US Eastern)
~1:30pm Stream Start
10:00pm Tentative End Time Stream Link!
Sunday 1/5 Livestream
Stream Schedule (times US Eastern)
8:00am Stream Start
10:00pm Tentative End Time Stream Link!
Monday 1/6 Livestream
Stream Schedule (times US Eastern)
~3:30pm Stream Start (delayed start due to beginning of semester)
10:00pm Tentative End Time Stream Link!
If you miss out on our livestreams, don’t worry! We will also be posting progress update and highlight videos on our YouTube, Instagram , and written updates on this Cheif Delphi thread
We all can’t wait for tomorrow’s game reveal!
Written by: @Freezer9401 - Media & Outreach Coordinator/Design Lead
FANGV has begun our Ri3D build. We began by diligently reading the game manual and doing some game analysis. Our first video goes over what zones on the REEFSCAPE field are protected allowing for restricted access. We will be posting more videos soon, please like and subscribe!
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Hello, with day 1 of our Ri3D over we are sharing some more of our findings from today. Today we completed some testing with the game pieces including the Coral. The PVC surprisingly didn’t slide very well on uncovered polycarb, and we would recommend finding some material to cover any long slides with a material with lower coefficient of friction. See some of our testing in the video below! Look out for our day 1 recap coming soon!
First day check ! We can’t wait to do more work on our robot concept tomorrow, in the meantime enjoy a recap of the work we completed today.
Game Analysis
We started our process by reading through the game manual and doing a field and scoring analysis. Find shorts about these topics on our Youtube. We determined the max score to be 303 points! We continued reading and clarifying important rules and set goals for what we wanted to accomplish with our robot.
Robot Functions
After analyzing the game we determined which functions we believed to be the most important and achievable for us in our short timeframe. Our functions list was narrowed down to 4 main functions:
Recieve coral from coral stations
Score coral on L1, L2, and L3
Remove algae from reef
Score algae into processor
These functions were determined to be the minimum requirement to potentially earn the 3 bonus ranking points, and thus will be our goals for our robot!
Ideation
We then moved into our ideation phase, where we split into teams to come up with ways to accomplish the functions identified above. Once each group came to a consensus, ideas where presented and the best ideas were combined to come up with our desired robot concept. Our whiteboards can be seen below:
In this image you can see concepts for our coral station pickup. Taking inspiration from the Kitbot, our idea also consists of a ramp for the coral to slide down, but for easier delivery to the reef the coral must be oriented longways with a PVC opening facing the bottom of the ramp. Instead of somehow funneling/reorienting the coral, we came up with the idea to feed the coral into the robot horizontally and catch it with a ramp sloping perpendicular to the coral station. This way there is no reorienting needed, and thanks to our swerve drive, scoring out of the "side" of the robot is no issue. This ramp setup also takes up way less real-estate in the robot, allowing more space for a potential algae mechanism.
Group 2 also came up with a similar idea to modify the Kitbot. They proposed that a funnel be used to reorient the coral down the slope, and use a large pivoting arm with the final wheels and captured coral to gain enough height to spit out on the L3 branches. Our concern with this concept is that an arm of the required length would be quite heavy and difficult to rotate.
The final ideation group came up with a unique concept to also use a slanted ramp for the coral, but have the capability to extend the ramp with a motor and also to pivot the slope using a pneumatic cylinder.
Prototyping
After some ideas for mechanisms were presented a list of potential prototypes was discussed. Specific interactions/measurements we were interested in testing included the following:
Possible deposit angle of coral onto reef
Reorientin coral on a downward slope
Coral friction on polycarb
Removing of algae from reef
Trough drop height
We began testing some of these by the end of the night but will continue testing some more tomorrow.
Concept Selection
With some previous conceptualization of how to do an elevator with our current resources, we determined that a single stage elevator is more than possible. Combined with our perpendicular ramp concept we believe we will be able to receive the coral easily, as well score them in L1, L2, and L3.
This image shows our concept. The left half of the robot is the elevator mentioned above with the perpendicular ramp attached to the large carriage. There are 2 wheels at the end that allow us to control when the coral is released. The right side of the robot is currently being left open to potentially add an algae scoring mechanism after the coral mechanism is functional.
If you have any questions regarding our design feel free to ask us in this thread or in our live chat in tomorrows livestream!
Written by: @Freezer9401 - Media & Outreach Coordinator/Design Lead
After deciding on a concept at the end of day 1, our design team went to work on designing a single stage elevator that would be able to be manufactured with our machining capabilities and available materials, and accomplish our goals of scoring coral on L1, L2. and L3. Through some 2d sketching it was confirmed that a single stage is all that was needed to score on all the wanted levels, as seen below.
We then moved into 3d, using a combinations of 1-1/8" bearings and .5" thick blocks of HDPE to constrain the inner stage and allow for the upward motion.
We were proud to have it mostly finished before the start of day 2, and assembly on the elevator began that morning. After some unique challenges that were solved, the elevator is assembled. We will be providing some more details on it later this evening!
Written by: @Freezer9401 - Media & Outreach Coordinator/Design Lead
! We can’t wait to do more work on our robot concept tomorrow, in the meantime enjoy a recap of the work we completed today.
