2017 – FIRST Steamworks

Aug 13, 2017

Deadshot

Championships

Project Lead:

  • Everyone on Team 702

Events attended:

  • Ventura Regional – Finished Top 8 (Earned the Judges Award)

  • Los Angeles Regional – Finished Top 8

  • St. Louis Championships (Darwin Division) – Rank 27

Drive Team:

  • Driver: Taylor “Hobbit”

  • Co-Driver: Pablo “Scooter”

  • Pilot: Zach “Box Squat”

  • Human Player: Ben “Professor Stickfigure”

  • Coach: Kenny “Cheeto Bandito”

Autonomous:

  • Capable of all three sides of gear delivery

    • Used Pixy camera for auto-targeting, strafing, and approaching target

    • Used LIDAR for initial measurements to ensure accuracy

  • Initially had a shooter designed for scoring balls while delivering gears, ultimately scraped

  • Capable of clearing baseline using LIDAR

Overview:

  • Mecanum drive base

  • Passive gear delivery system w/automatic raise and lower capabilities

  • Active shooters that were preloaded with six balls per side

    • No ball collector was implemented and design was scraped

  • Rear climbing system design featuring a ratchet to hold the robot in place after climbing was successful

  • Programmed in Java

  • LIDAR range finder to help with maneuverability and distance reading

  • Pixy camera to identify when robot was efficiently lined up to peg