Returning from the SAC regional, the team made notes to get ready for the next competition, the East Bay Regional (EBR).
The team met for a competition debrief in the beginning, which included discussion of competition performance, robot improvements, and logistical improvements for the next competition. We realized that driver practice and tuning auto routines would be the main focus of weeks 4 and 5.
Another meeting on Friday, the team began fixing a few minor flaws in each subsystem. Per the competition debrief, we decided to replace a MaxComposite plate for aluminum on the outtake. Along with the outtake, the team had agreed upon improvements to the intake, gearing the first roller faster to allow the driver to intake coral at higher speeds, and adding a larger wheel to the center roller to better vector the coral in its horizontal orientation.
The team additionally worked on improving the energy chain on the elevator, as it had previously caught on the hard stop, which prevents the outtake from fully stowing. Furthermore, the software team has been working on speeding up all the movements of the elevator and wrist, as well as tuning the vision alignment and automatic scoring to cut down on cycle times and reach our goal of being able to complete the Coral Ranking Point by ourselves by EBR.
From our competition debrief, we have a new plan for our building process in between each competition. The team will work to put our assembled spares onto a separate robot, allowing us to test the functionality of the spares as well as get more driver practice for our backup driver.
Apart from our subsystems, we fixed minor electrical problems we had before during the SAC Regional, for example, the CANcoder and the Kraken motors that were not working before.
With our new subsystems all put together, we started the driver practices on Friday. Our amazing driver had his time to get used to the new subsystem and the different controls on the PS5 controller. Along with the driver practice, the software team was consistently making changes to vision alignment.
Last but not least, we had two amazing teams, 1072 Harker Robotics, on our field on Saturday, and 9470 Control-Alt-Defeat Robotics on our field on Sunday. It was great to see their robots in action, whizzing around our field. If your team ever wants to come and practice at our practice field, feel free to contact 972contact@lgsuhsd.org
Stay tuned for our next competition, the East Bay Regional!
