Great Robot Designs in FRC History Andy Baker

Great Robot Designs in FRC History Andy Baker President and Co-owner, Andy. Mark, Inc.

Background BSME, University of Evansville 1992 -2007, Delphi Corporation 1998 -today, FRC Mentor (teams 45, 3940) 2003, Championship WFA 2004, co-founded Andy. Mark, Inc. Co-founder: IRI, Indiana FIRST, Championship Conferences, WFA committee FRC event volunteer (inspector, referee, etc. )

Objectives Highlight designs that changed FRC Give credit to teams who created now- commonplace FRC designs Recognize the best robots build in FRC Point out some dramatic design failures Don’t choose more than one robot from one team

My Favorite Indiana FRC Robots 10: Team 461, 2002 9: Team 234, 2015 8: Team 829, 2007 7: Team 1501, 2010 6: Team 3940, 2012 5: Team 135, 2014 4: Team 868, 2004 3: Team 1024, 2008 2: Team 45, 1999 1: Team 71, 2001

Top 20 Countdown! Best Designs

20: Raider Robotix in 2006 (team 25) Champs Finalists No floor feed Special 6 wd Drive Train All wheels on same plane Special grooves cut in wheels Automode win = match win Also: 2000, 2003

19: Cheesey Poofs in 2011 (team 254) World Champions Excellent multi-stage telescoping lift system Excellent mini-bot design and depoloyment Highlight video Simple, clean, elegant Also: 2014, 2002, 2009

18: Bionic Bulldogs in 2002 (team 60) Could lift and spin two goals, weighing 180 pounds each Introduced wedgetop tread to FIRST Powdercoat everything First team to focus on neat packaging

17: Royal Assault “Jester Drive” in 2005, 2006 (team 357) Mecanum Wheels, what? Omni-directional Airtrax Forklift

16: Beach Bots in 2005 (team 330) World Champions Single Actuation Arm Wedge Sides Easy to Control KISS vs. Complex Match Video

15: Techno. Kat “TKO” in 1999 (team 45) Shifting transmission, led to creation of Andy. Mark, Inc. Metal track drive (eventually deemed illegal) Bullied other teams with arm, dominating the puck Only matches lost were matches when something broke World Finalists Also: 1998, 1992, 2004

14: WPI and Mass Academy in 2004 (190) Dominated top bar, covering and traversing Could score 2 x ball while hanging Telescoping arm CVT drive train Match video Also: 2008, 2007

13: Hexcalibur from 1996 (team 146) On display at FIRST headquarters in Manchester Polished Robot Perfect score in almost every round

12: D’Penguineers in 2012 (team 1717) Smooth Swerve Vision Tracking Shooter Accurate Shooter Efficient Floor Pickup Effective Balancer 30 Point End Game Highlight Reel Also: 2009

11: CHAOS in 2000 (team 131) Simple design Student build, from necessity De-score opponent’s black ball Took out team 47’s best robot Match video 47+312 vs. 126+131

10: Grasshoppers in 2002 (team 95) Re-defined ball pickup Tube roller, with much power Optimized traction on ball Sacrificed drivetrain power Here’s a video

9: The Pink Team Extension Arm (team 233) Teams start calling extension arms “Pink Team Extension Arms” Single-actuated, multistage cascading tubular arm CNC milled patterns Strong shoulder joint Roller claw Many years of use Also: 2005, 2011

8: Thunder. Chickens in 2002 (team 217) Planetary CVT (continuously variable transmission) Design published during following summer Replicated by other teams (and those teams even received awards!) Also: 2006, 2007, 2008

7: Robonauts in 2007 (team 118) Redline Robot 1 main power source Many, many chains Swerve drive on steroids Inspiration for commercial swerve modules Also: 2003, 2012

6: Hot Team in 2012 (team 67) Efficient design w/ pickup & balance arm Best shooter in FRC, auto/vision Alleged victim of sabotage Also: 2005, 2009, 2000, 2004

5: Wildstang in 2003 (team 111) Stangsense Dominant Automode Waypoint teaching for automode positioning King of the hill, with wing-ramps Swerve drive Match Play Also: 1997, 2009, 2011

4: Simbotics in 2008 (team 1114) Dominant automode Clean ball pickup and punching launcher Low Cg, low profile Fast, two speed drive Match Play Also: 2004, 2007, 2012, 2014

3: Las Guerrillas in 2010 (team 469) Broke the game with ball guiding mechanism Excellent mid-field kicker/scorer Locked itself into tower Redirected balls into goals Surprisingly lost finals of Einstein Match Video Also: 2003, 2014, 2009

2: Team Hammond in 2002 (team 71) Flip over drive base No steering needed File card walking beams 3 goal grabbers Locked the game if goals were grabbed Match Play Also: 1997, 2002, 2004

1: Chief. Delphi from 2000 (team 47) Elegant, welded tubular design Amazingly large ball collector with actuated rollers 2 wheel swerve drive (w/ 2 casters) Aluminum bumper Did amazing things with very limiting robot rules Match video Also: 1997, 2000, 2001

Thank you Questions?