STEAMworks Meeting - 12-Jan-2017

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PHOTOS

CAD & Design

Refined gear holder, refined the chassis design.

Sullivan Stuehrmann, CAD Lead


CAM Lead: Patrick Highlights/Notes from Design Meeting 1/12

Design Size- 36x40x24" (Bumper must fit inside this space)

Intake- Looking to use Surgical Tubing tied around several sets of rollers to bring a ball (fuel) into the bot. The Intake will be placed on a long side of the bot. We're looking to have both the fuel intake and the gear intake be on the front of the bot. A spring-loaded system to quickly unload the gear.

Electronics- Arranged onto a panel and placed vertically over to one short side of the bot over top of a battery that rests in between two swerve modules or lie flat.

Climber- Two current concepts for a climber that need to be prototype. (Further specifics of each concept were not discussed)

Shooter- A turret design was mentioned, but will not have 360 degrees of freedom. The wheel in the shooter will be spinning constantly the whole match. Fuel may be launched at a high angle in order to get over possible defenders, but may see a decrease in rate of fire. Shooting team will work on adjusting flight path and spin of the ball. A delay was noticed on the wheel after shooting for it to pick up speed again. Programming team will work on a mobile Auto Aim

Power- The design is beginning to run into problems in terms of power distribution with the inclusion of a turreted shooter.

Hopper- From 3-day robot build videos, Passive loading systems jammed the shooter. A manual feed must be considered.

Prototying Dead Lines Shooter- 1/18 Intake- 1/16 Gear- 1/18 Climber- 1/19 Hopper- 1/21

-Meeting Concluded-














Bumper not will fully surround the bot, part of it will be removed to fit the fuel intake on the bottom and the gear intake on top

Mechanical

Programming

-We did some more analysis on the target information and came up with an equation for distance. It still needs to be tested.

-We also continued OpenCV development on the raspberry pis. -We also wrote code for reading the controllers. This code is an improvement over last year, because it allows classes to access the controller information without having to implement its own method. It also allso autonomous to be able to set any controller values it needs without the client code having to write a method for it. -We began code for the new pivots. It needs to be tested whenever a pivot module is complete.

~Laura Dodds

Equation to determine the distance from a target (d) given the width in pixels of a vision target in the camera image (w):
d = (TARGET_WIDTH*CAMERA_IMAGE_WIDTH)/(2*tan(FOV_ANGLE/2)*w)
i.e. d and w are inversely related.

-Matt Lebermann

Strategy

Field Elements

Communications

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