2018

2018 is when I took over as lead fabricator and was responsible for the creation of the whole robot. I was also much more heavily involved with the robot design, mostly gear boxes. Notably, we needed to design a special rocker style H-Drive mechanism that would allow our robot to move omni-directionally without the complexity of a Swerve or Mecanum drive.

This year we focused on vision targeting and the autonomous period of the game. We were very successful but unfortunately just missed out on world championships.

The video below shows the robot operating autonomously placing two cubes in under 15 seconds. Out of thousands of teams, only about 30-40 in the whole world could do this.

link to challenge description:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZbdwYiCY74