Tuesday, June 14, 2011

06-14-11 Tuesday Meeting Update

Tonight the team discussed what mechanisms can be used to play the VEX game Gateway. The team is prototyping an intake roller claw, conveyor belt mechanism and a standard open / close claw.

The team has narrowed the drive choices to an H-drive, a 4-wheel and a 6-wheel drive. The B team has proposed a C-drive, but it has yet to be decided to be tested.

Tonight the team also listed some design requirements to have a list of requirements for everyone's prototypes to follow for the overall robot's design:
  • Consistently score game pieces.
  • Reliable autonomous-consistently simple
  • Score at least one game object at a time at a minimum
  • Have the ability to manipulate both types of game objects - barrel and ball, regardless of the game piece's orientation
  • Simple, reliable drive train; simple to operate on a controls level as well
  • Have the ability to score in all goals, regardless of the goal's height
  • Must have for first competition: At least 1 at time game piece scoring
  • Nice to have for first competition: holding and scoring multiple pieces at a time
  • Driver should just drive and not have to worry about controlling any scoring mechanism
  • The other operator should handle all scoring controls
  • Utilize Pre-loads and Human loaded objects
Posted by Kevin Phan on 06-14-11






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