The Silly Billies (Team 11)

Final Results: 3rd place + Design Award!

Members

Alex Rice - Electrical/Software
Vishakk Rajendran - Mechanical/Strategy
Cassandra He - Electrical/Software
Patrick Liu - Software/Strategy
Rohan Wagh - team mascot

Schedule

Week1

Day 1: 1/8

Top plate cut - Alex
Kitbot assembly started - Cassandra
NUC setup - Pat

Day 2: 1/9

Kitbot driving teleop - Cassandra
OpenCV examples on VM - Alex
NUC - Pat
Strategy - Vishakk, Rohan

Day 3: 1/10

Autonomous!
Rudimentary PID control working, having trouble following block in real-time "Why isn't it moving"

Day 4: 1/11

Inconsistent PID block following
Decoupled PID loop and camera framerate by abstracting through shared memory

Day 5: 1/12

Camera framerate increase --> PID following greatly improved
Encoders working
Larger chassis Lasercutting a larger chassis for the kitbot

Week 2

Day 6: 1/15

Kitbot reassembled with larger frame

Day 7: 1/16

Working homography
Lift mechanism laser cut from MDF

Day 8: 1/17

Script to toggle between auto drive mode and keyboard drive for ease of testing

Day 9: 1/18

Gripper mechanism CAD
New chassis to support arm
Lift mechanism attached

Day 10: 1/19 Mock Competition Day!

Tied for first (...out of 2 teams)

Week 3

Day 11: 1/22

Feedback motor working

Day 12: 1/23

Fine tuning collection mechanism

Day 13: 1/24

New gripper design
Block collection CAD
Autonomous state machine outlined

Day 14: 1/25

Block collection cut
Working autonomous block search and following

Day 15: 1/26

Stacking mechanism prototype

Week 4

Day 16: 1/29

Weight reduction from front of robot
Front scooper to position blocks for manipulator

Day 17: 1/30

steezy

Day 18: 1/31

Troubleshooting issues with collection near walls
New stacking mechanism designed Team color blocks stacked automatically, stack placed on the floor in the last 10 seconds

Day 19: 2/1

We can stack now!
New state machine for autonomous
- Follow blocks no matter what color
- Sort blocks once on the robot (stack or collect)