Our Strategies

Game Strategy

In the 30 second autonomous period, we want to use as much time as we can to maximize the amount of points we can get. To do this our strategy at the start of the beginning was to scan the team marker. This gives us which level we have to place our preloaded freight. After we scan the team marker we pick the team marker up with our and we head over to our alliance shipping hub to place our freight and get the bonus points. Then we move to the carousel so our wheel is making contact with the side and rotate the carousel. After the duck is delivered, we can predict where the duck will land and pick the duck up with our intake, and place the duck on the top level of the shipping hub. It navigates to the warehouse and intakes a freight and places it on the top level. With the time left the robot navigates towards the warehouse and parks completely inside it. The maximum amount of points we can get with this code is 64 points.

In tele-op, we want our robot to be fast at intaking the freight and depositing them in the alliance shipping hub. If we know our cycle time is faster than our alliance partner, we pick up the freights and put them onto the alliance shipping hub. If our partner is faster and more efficient, then we pick up the freights and put them on the shared shipping hub. In the end game of tele-op, the fastest way to get points was to rotate the carousel and deliver the ducks. This gets us 48 points with each delivery taking 2-3 seconds. So we rotate the carousel first and then go to the alliance shipping hub which we can use to deliver a duck and cap our team marker. Then, we focus on either the shared shipping hub or alliance shipping hub. After balancing the alliance shipping hub or the shared shipping hub or both we park inside the warehouse for parking points.

Engineering Strategies

Engineering Process & Strategy

This type of flowchart helped us design, and create an efficient robot in under 4 weeks. We made sure to clearly describe our objectives, requirements, and strategies so we can have the most efficient design process. We will expand upon each of these stages as we progress through this portfolio.

Engineering Strategies

Robot Capabilities Matrix

Before we started designing, building, and further developments on our robot mechanically and in terms of software, we drafted out our goals. Not only did we consider factors such as the amount of points, but also how difficult the challenges were and the budget required. The charts shown below were drafted as a group on one of our initial meetings. For programming challenges, we considered mostly the difficulties in integration of newer techniques as opposed to previous years, but also thought of pursuing those to grow our skills. The mechanical side considered factors such as fabrication challenges and parts cost/availability in order to optimize the robot functionality.