Following a restful MLK long weekend, we continued with data testing, creating many new prototypes, and making some important decisions. On Tuesday, our Design Voting Council (DVC) voted on different orientations of the elevator. They settled on an elevator oriented on its side, angled at 4 degrees, due to its benefit of taking up less space. We also started planning which awards we are going to pursue, working on our tech binder, and ordering apparel. We ended the day with our weekly stand-up presentation.
Throughout the rest of the week, we continued prototyping various mechanisms for deep climb, coral intake, and our autonomous routine. During this time, we decided to test an offset bicep climb to see if it would be possible to place the mechanism on the side of our robot. Through many trials, we observed that the bicep arm with an offset often slipped off the cage.
In parallel with the deep cage climb and autonomous path testing, our team has started testing intake from every orientation. Depositing the coral into the trough (L1) has met our functional requirement of 95% or greater for scoring L1. We also tested stacking coral in the trough to maximize our earned points. Regarding the autonomous routine, we are working on vision alignment and scoring coral on L4. The vision team has also made developments in alignment, and now the robot can score accurately in L2 and L3 during TeleOp. Additionally, we completed our practice field set-up with the installation of the barge. Some of our students have started practicing the role of human player and scoring algae in the barge, which is not as easy as it looks!
On the other side of things, our students are working on T-shirt designs for our competition shirts, which will be voted on in the coming weeks.
Next week, the team will work on scoring L4 during TeleOp using our Alphabot and improving April Tag alignment. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue preparing for this competition season!
