Road to Worlds Document

By Ethan, Charlotte, Evan, Karina, Janavi, Jose, Ben, Justin, Arjun, Abhi, and Bhanaviya

Task: Consider what we need to do in the coming months

ROAD TO WORLDS - What we need to do

 

OVERALL:

• New social media manager (Janavi/Ben) and photographer (Ethan, Paul, and Charlotte)

 

ENGINEERING JOURNAL: - Charlotte, Ethan, & all freshmen

 

• Big one - freshmen get to start doing a lot more

 

• Engineering section revamp
• Decide on major subsystems to focus on
• Make summary pages and guides for judges to find relevant articles
• Code section
• Finalize state diagram
• Label diagram to refer to the following print out of different parts of the code
• Create plan to print out classes
• Monthly summaries
• Meeting Logs
• Include meeting planning sessions at the beginning of every log
• Start doing planning sessions!
• Create monthly summaries
• Biweekly Doodle Polls
• record of supposed attendance rather than word of mouth
• Design and format revamping
• Start doing actual descriptions for blog commits
• More bullet points to be more technical
• Award highlights [Ethan][Done]

Page numbers [Ethan][Done]

• Awards on indexPrintable [Ethan][Done]
• Irrelevant/distracting content
• Packing list
• Need a miscellaneous section
• content
• Details and dimensions
• Could you build robot with our journal?
• CAD models
• More technical language, it is readable but not technical currently
• Outreach
• More about the impact and personal connections
• What went wrong
• Make content more concise and make it convey our message better

ENGINEERING TEAM:

 

• Making a new robot - All build team (Karina & Jose over spring break)

 

• Need to organize motors (used, etc)
• Test harness for motors (summer project)
• Re-do wiring -Janavi and Abhi
• Elbow joint needs to be redone (is at a slight angle) - Justin/Ben
• 3D print as a prototype
• Cut out of aluminum
• Needs to be higher up and pushed forward
• More serviceable
• Can’t plug in servos
• Sorter -Evan, Karina, and Justin
• Sorter redesign

• Intake -Evan, Karina, Abhi, Jose
• Take video of performance to gauge how issues are happening and how we can fix
• Subteam to tackle intake issues
• Superman -Evan and Ben
• Widen superman wheel
• Lift
• Transfer police (1:1 to 3:4)
• Larger drive pulley
• Mount motors differently to make room
• Chassis -Karina and a freshman
• Protection for LED strips
• Battery mount
• Phone mount
• Camera mount
• New 20:1 motors
• Idler sprocket to take up slack in chain (caused by small sprocket driving large one)
• CAD Model

CODE TEAM: -Abhi and Arjun

• add an autorecover function to our robot for when it tips over
• it happened twice and we couldn’t recover fast enough to climb
• something in the update loop to maintain balance
• we were supposed to do this for regionals but we forgot to do it and we faced the consequences
• fix IMU corrections such that we can align to field wall instead of me eyeballing a parallel position
• use distance sensors to do wall following and crater detection
• auto paths need to be expanded such that we can avoid alliance partners and have enough flexibility to pick and choose what path needs to be followed
• In both auto paths, can facilitate double sampling
• Tuning with PID (tuning constants)
• Autonomous optimization

DRIVE TEAM:

• Driving Logs
• everytime there is driving practice, a driver will fill out a log that records overall record time, record time for that day, number of cycles for each run, and other helpful stats to track the progress of driving practice
• actual driving practice lol
• Multiple drive teams

 

COMPETITION PREP:

• Pit setup
• Clean up tent and make sure we have everything to put it together
• Activities
• Robotics related
• Find nuts and bolts based on the online list
• Helping other teams
• Posters
• Need a handout
• Conduct in pits - need to be focused
• MXP or no?
• Spring break - who is here and what can we accomplish
• Scouting