Week 1
- Attended Kick-off and reviewed game video (at MDB)
- Picked up and inventoried the Kit of Parts
- Discussed game challenges and strategies
- Brainstormed robot designs
- Inventoried existing clubhouse tools and materials
- Setup teams and facilities: PR, Programming, Electrical, Mechanical1(drivetrain) Mechanical2(arms/attachments), Mechanical3(pneumatics)
- Constructed additional work table to facilitate multiple teams working concurrently at full production
- Began field props construction
Week 2
- Completed construction of field props
- Continued brainstorming game strategies and robot designs (mecanum wheel design determination)
- Determined basic drivetrain configuration (a result of off-season testing)
- Reviewed new hardware documentation/configurations (eg. RoboRio and Talon SRX)
- Began prototyping drivetrain assembly (nanotubes with wood framing)
- Began prototyping mast and arm sub-assemblies
- Brainstormed pneumatic solutions to support the arm prototypes
- Completed electrical board prototype and handed-off to programming
- Reviewed Chairman’s Award criteria and started mapping ideas for essays and video
Week 3
- Electrical board prototype testing and configuration completed
- Initial autonomous and Tele-op mode coding backgrounds completed
- Drivetrain prototype completed and tested
- Began programming tests with controllers and drivetrain prototype
- Mast prototype completed (aluminum pipe tower with a chain drive trolley system for raising/lowering)
- Continued to prototype arm subassemblies and supporting pneumatics
- Reviewed new hardware documentation/configurations (eg. RoboRio and Talon SRX)
- Basic drivetrain and chassis assembly tested and completed
- Began Chairman’s Award Essays and reviewed team video footage of community outreach events
- Continued discussing game strategies
Week 4
- Completed electrical system transformation to final chassis
- Continued testing and tweaking programming
- Finalized mounting and securing of mast assembly to chassis
- Robot drive capability testing and tweaking (video)
- Final decision reached on arm assembly to be used (pneumatically-driven pinchers with fulcrums mounted to the trolley)
- Arm assembly completed and mounted to the mast
- Initial lifting capability testing started
- Testing data reviewed and countermeasures suggested
- Draft of Chairman’s Award essays completed
- Video clips reviewed and organized
Week 5
- Completed final electrical connection and configuration refinements
- Completed final pneumatics mounting and routing
- Completed chain-drive securing system (3D printed mounts for the channel)
- First full-blown game simulation conducted (MDB)
- Brainstormed ideas for securing the payload while the robot traverses the course
- Prototyped payload securing mechanisms
- Constructed upper-level arm assembly for securing payload during movement
- Reviewed Youtube video of other teams’ designs and performance
- Continued programming testing and tweaking
- Chairman’s Award essays reviewed, edited and submitted
Week 6
- Conducted additional full-blown game simulations
- Tested all game-related capabilities including drive team, human player and pit crew
- Identified potential performance issues and weakness
- Completed final robot assessments and tweaking
- Discussed additional game strategies
- Conducted video interviews for Chairman’s Award video
- Reviewed Youtube video of past Chairman’s Award video’s
- Bagged and tagged robot (2/17/15 @ 7:30PM)