2011

Logo Motion

The 2011 season's game was Logo Motion. The object of this game was to carry inflated tubes, in the shape of components of the FIRST logo, and hang them on pegs at the ends of the game field. In the first 15 second autonomous period, teams could hang yellow "uber-tubes" on the peg rack to score double points when a regular tube was hung over it. In the last 30 seconds of the match, teams had the opportunity to launch minibots that would race up an aluminum pole to score bonus points.

Our Robot

Our strategy in this game was to be able to hang at least one uber-tube in autonomous, be able to pick up tubes off of the ground and hang them as quickly as possible. We could also launch a minibot onto the racing pole and have it climb the pole in roughly two seconds.

Our robot, Skunk.I.Am, was capable of hanging tubes on all three levels of the scoring rack. The end effector, or scoring mechanism on the robot was a pneumatic "popper." Using pneumatics, the end effector could push the tube onto the peg. We also built several types of minibots for the end-game. The final mini-bot could be launched onto the pole, attach with a magnet and drive up the pole with direct drive wheels.