Saturday, February 25, 2012

Strategy and Machine Concepts


Strategy

Our team’s strategy is to start as close to the tower as possible, grab a ball from the tower and score very quickly. We will then proceed to block the other team’s goal. If we do not succeed in scoring faster than our opponent we will take more balls from the base of the tower and score as many times as we can. This strategy is simple, fast and easily adaptable to how our opponent will be playing the game.

Machine Concept

Our teams final design concept involves a u-shaped robot with a flap on the end of the u that rotates and can flip balls from the tower into the robot. When the flap is in the down position it will be able to contain the balls we have grabbed out of the tower. Treads will be used instead of wheels to increase mobility around the table as well as prevent our machine from falling into the goal area. The first picture is a concept sketch and the second is our preliminary CAD design.




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