FTC 7314 Engineering Notebook 2016-03-25

Competition Season Meeting

Meeting Date	Meeting Time	Location	Team Members in Attendance:
25 March 2016	12pm-5pm	TCHS Brandywine	Trevor, Akhila, Josh, Justin, Amal, Braden

Tasks	Reflections
Hanging	We had great success tonight with a first working prototype of our robot hanging. We equipped our robot with a wench and tension stick and hook. The robot actual was able to hang!!! There is still lots more to do to make this capability ready for competition, but it is a great start and rewarding to see some quick results. It was really exciting to see the robot hang. Next steps are to program the motors and to get this under driver control. We also want more sustainability and reliability.
Programming	Plans for Autonomous improvements: Make autonomous less dependent on motor encoders. We currently need to have the robot arrive within 8 inches or so in front of the white line that runs to beacon. It we miss that 8 inch window, we usually miss finding and tracking the white line. The idea for a solution: have the robot find the white line by approach from the side, not the front. TODO: add a sketch of the new robot approach path.