Video finally available of our sweet robot for 2006’s AIM HIGH Challenge.
Nicknamed P.A.L. 2006 (Professionally Automated Landrover) after our founding mentor of 7 years who retired last year, Carll Pallokat, this robot is our best to date and a tribute to all mentors of 237 past, present, and future.
That is one cool looking bot you have there. 360? rotating turret. Very nice.
It seemed like you were shooting at much less than 12 m/s. You weren’t making shots from distances which (just from experince) seem like they would be easy to make from.
Do you have tilt control as well?
How many balls can you store?
Can you shoot on the move?
The view from behind the goal is our bot in the first starting position. During our autonomous we will drive forward to make sure it’s easier to score. I believe when we tested it, we were shooting at around 20mph.
No tilt control. This was originally the idea, but we found that there is an awfully large deadzone (10-15 feet) where we can get the ball in. As someone mentioned, KISS.
I believe we can store just around 10 balls (little more, 11-12?)
With a few regional camera code changes, I believe we will be able to shoot from a moderate speed.
I’ll check out the video at home. At the moment on the school computers it fails halfway through and gives me a code error… much like the first shots in the video… See you guys at Annapolis.
Edit: Highly impressive robot! Cant wait too see it in person. :yikes:
Looks like the ball trajectory is such that a 5’ tall robot cannot block you. Is this true?
We haven’t seem you guys since you picked us for finals and we won NYC back in '02. We look forward to seeing you and many others tomorrow. This is our first time at UTC, and by looking at the talent, this should be lots of fun!!!
along with DA CUTTT bling
