2014:Robot Design Details
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Specifications:
CAD Drawing:
Overall:
- Ability to drive around field well
- Ability to pick up the ball quickly
- Ability to pass ball out of robot quickly
- Ability to shoot the ball with variable power levels
- Ability to catch the ball
- Ability to track hot goal in autonomous mode
Drivetrain:
- 6 Wheel Standard Drive (2 Centered Tractions, 4 Omnis on the Corners)
- 4 CIMs on CIMple Boxes (May change to 6 CIMS :D )
- Painted Colonial Red, first drive train of ours ever to be painted red
Intake:
- "Over the bumper" type intake, developed and popularized by Team JVN in BuildBlitz
- 2 Banebots wheels grip the surface of the ball
- Rolls ball all the way into the shooter mechanism's cradle
Shooter:
- Cradle receives ball from the intake mechanism
- Cradle lifts the ball into a higher position
- Motorized kicker hits the ball, launching it over the truss or into the high goal
- Cradle has a linkage connected to the intake, eliminating need for another motorized and programmed system
- uses 6 motors to spin a kicker that hits the ball at a variable speed
- linkage to intake, 1 motor that lifts up cradle linked to intake
