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Team FloridaFlorida built an amazing R/C bot. It used wheelchair motors to get around (running at about 10% capacity to be slow enough to control) and an ingenious suction/loading mechanism to pick up the balls and deliver them to the gun mounted on top. The gun was pressurized using a propane cylinder and an air compressor, then fired using a solenoid sprinkler valve. They controlled it using two R/C controllers. | |
Team Irvine UndergroundIVU expanded their platform from last year, keeping the base structure and drive wheels and adding the gun and collection mechanism. It ran off of computer control and was fully autonomous for most of the event. A conveyor lifted the balls from the ground up to a storage bin. The gun rotated under computer control and a gate lowered to load a ball into the barrel. The gun fired using a modified paintball gun. | |
The ResultsFriday was open for both teams to come down and practice, so both teams had a day to do final tweaks. IVU spent many hours fine tuning the AI code that afternoon. On Saturday after lunch the event took place, about 50 people gathered around as the bots were rolled out and went through their first testing. The first round it was decided to not have a time limit, rounds two and three had a strict 7 minute time limit |
Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | |
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IVU | 13 Balls 1 Can (AI) 88 Points |
13 Balls 0 Cans 13 Points |
9 Balls 1 Can (AI) 84 Points |
Florida | 25 Balls 5 Can 150 Points |
25 Balls 5 Cans 150 Points 6:30 |
25 Balls 3 Cans Gun 2 Cans Bumped 110 Points |
Check out the two videos (Florida's 2nd Run 20MB) and (IVU's run 55MB avi) and the pictures in The Gallery
We look forward to seeing everyone again next year! Check out the New Rules!