Week Two

This week, we decided on a final lifter and gripper combination: a single-tower, 3-stage telescopic lifter with an expanding gripper. Work begun on making the lifter. In addition, we made a prototype gripper, which we mounted to our 2005 robot. The 2005 robot used a similar telescopic lifter. The result was a working robot that could pick up and lift logotubes!



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We considered how the entire robot (chassis, lifter, minibot deployment device, minibot) was going to fit together. This year, we are using a swerve drive system, where the wheels can change their orientation, allowing the robot to slide in all directions.



A lot of work was also done on the minibot and minibot deployment system. Right now, there are still several minibot and deployment designs that we are considering.

News from animation: modeling a rock is hard work!



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