Friday, April 9, 2010


Today is the practice day. Basically, it is the last day for our team to configurate the main parts of the robot.

This is the picture of the robot from the bottom view. It is a pnuematic kicker and at the conjunction of pushing stick and the kicker, there is a latch. It takes one second to pull the kicker back in, then use that latch to hold it. Whenever the robot is on the right position to kick the ball, the program will loose the latch. In the last robot functional test, our robot can kick a standard soccer ball 30 feet far that is about one region on the competition field. The student in the picture is trying to find the right position to integrate the hooking system into the robot.

This is a look at the wheels of our robot. Every robot have its own different style. Wheels are the best way to show the unique characteristics of the team. Our weels are 45 degrees to the robot's frame. Of course, we do need to have a special program to run the program so that it can walking as expected.

This is a look at one of the wheel motors. Each of the wheel motors is individually connected to the wireless controller. Therefore, the robot can move to every direction the programmer expects.


This picture shown above is that they just finish configurating the web camera. The motor under the camera can machenically change the direction where the camera faces. It is controlled by the programmer.

The students are screwing the number bars around the robot. The light green stick at the up-right corner is our completed hooking system.

Finally, the robot completed. Our team number is 2359 among the red team. The functions of our robot are long-distance kick goaling and hooking the robot at the end of the game so that it can gain more points for the team.



It is the actual competition field. There are three regions. Each one has two robots from red and blue team. The positions for robots are defenser, passer and goaler.




The picture shown above is the example of hooking system performence. The team which complete this performance will be counted two goals.

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