Hi all,
During the worlds (2011) there was this chinese teams robot (not sure of its number) that had an almost “snail” like design where it would intake the rings at ground level and spit them back out at the top of the curved structure.
we think it is 4285 but we are not too sure about this
Does anyone know what team this robot is from/ what their site is (assuming they have a robot site)
Cheers
tada, team 5812
:D!!! thankyou soooo much!!!
I was surprised how many chinese teams went with the conveyor belt pickup for round-up.
5812 and their twin were by far the best of the conveyor group.
Interesting that no american teams had this design !
We saw a team that tried at an Oregon regional. It wasn’t very successful but I loved the concept. There were a few takes on the design in general. I remember a team that went very far in the math division eliminations that was super quick. Some went in the front bottom, out the back top. Some went with the curled design (the chinese teams linked).
A team from our state, had a conveyor robot identical to the chinese one very early in the season. I think August is the first time they competed with it.
The tournament was the Mckinley Vexhibition, and the team was 2453 or Hawaii Baptist.
Is that the middle or high?
The team next to our booth at worlds (an American team) had a similiar design to this. Rather than a large conveyer belt with paddles, they had 3 or 4 polycarb “hands” to pick up the tubes.
I really like the robot in the video though. Its a nice design. I wonder if a gateway version of this would be possible…
It wouldn’t be impossible, but I’m going to say that it would be rather be difficult. Mainly because of the varying sizes of the game objects. If you’re up for a challenge go ahead and build it, you could do very well if you perfected a design like that and actually got it working. However I personally don’t believe I am going to “waste my/our team’s time”, as other designs seem just as/more promising.
~Jordan
Our team looked at this design as well, as we thought it would be really handy to have for colour filter in autonomous (and during driver control), but the sheer size of the objects makes it impractical. The Round Up rings were flat, so they were much thinner in one dimension, so they could be picked up by the snail easily - but as soon as they were in a different orientation, it was impossible to pick them up. Gateway objects are large in all three dimensions, so it would end up being like picking elevation cubes (except not flat on all sides), but even larger.
Ya, the cool thing was that Hefei Number 8 was actually a middle school. Even though they were a middle school they still were pretty good among the high school level. Their robot had a very effective autonomous on the did that did not have the prescore. Though they lost one match, they ended up 2nd in our division of engineering. They picked 2921, and for the third pick it took them a wile to decide and they picked a puerto rican team, but soon after when my team was picked to be on the third seed you could see the alliance captain from Hefei stressen on why he didn’t pick my team. All in all i think both my team and Hefei came out of the Engineering division, winners. Hefei winning our division and Eagle Engineering winning Excellence. It was a great time working with this team and i hope to see them next year. 