Our Robot



Robot Fast Facts:

Number of Attachments: 11

Number of Programs:  11

Amount of Memory Used: Full

Most Consistently completed Mission:  Bowling and Retrieve/fix chair 

Strategy

How we chose our missions and their order:

We chose our missions first by the odds of them being completed successfully.   Nest we chose missions close by, so hopefully we could complete more of them faster.

Favorite Mission and why:

It is too hard to pick.  We liked bowling because it was like a game within a game.  We also liked the cardio one because it was fun to turn the when and it was worth a lot of points.  We also liked ending on the ramp, because that made us feel successful as a team at the end, and really cheer.

Design Process 

When we went to our qualifier we had three different robots, but before we competed we learned that we could really only use one at the table at a time.  This kind of threw us off.  We took one robot design to the table first and a second design to the table the second time.  Whichever  robot was more successful was the one that went to round three.  For today’s competition we redesigned the robot based on the robot that was the most successful at our qualifying round.

 

This was our other robot that we don't use anymore.

We also have a different attachment for each mission we run.  

For example, the attachment on the robot below is for the mission to retrieve the dog. The long arm pushed the button to release the dog and the hook brings the dog back. 

 This is another one one of our attachments.  

Programming

        We were lucky enough to have four robots to work with, so four different pairs of us could program at a time.  Each pair picked different missions they thought they could achieve and worked together to create the programs.  For most of us this was our first time using this program, so our programs are very simple.