Meet Our Robots!
SCORPIOS: Student Created Original Robot Prepared to Inspire Others to Succeed
SCORPIOS is our robot build for the 2018 competition season. It features a 6-wheel tank drive with two 3-CIM ball shifter gear boxes. The lift is a two stage cascading lift with two 775-pros to power it. We use CRTE's Mag Encoder to keep the lift at a set height. It's arms are made of sawblade steel, graciously manufactured by Simonds. We use 6 green compliant wheels as the main intake, and our arm design allows us to have a protected pneumatic piston to force the arms open. The arm's angle is controlled by a motor with the encoder, which keeps it at a specific angle. It's climbing hook is made out of the same material as the arms. It bites in to the climbing bar so we never have to worry about slipping and falling. Our electronics "panel" is actually a cube, cleverly called the Power Cube. It's design is compact yet modular and open, allowing us to easily diagnose any electrical problems. |
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TITUS: Team Inspired Tactical Unit of Success
TITUS is our robot for the 2017 competition season. It's drive train is 8" mecanum wheels to allow for quick adjustments to align the gear with the hook. On one side it has a passive gear chute with a pneumatic dropper, and the back side has an arm that can grab gears off of the floor. The arm has pneumatic clamps to hold the gear in place. The climber is a long rotating cylinder with several hooks, making latching and climbing on to the rope easy and quick. This robot earned the industrial design award for how efficient it was. |
Mantis: Named for its mantis arms
Mantis was our robot for the 2016 competition season. It had massive tank treads so it could easily climb over any defense. Pneumatic arms allowed it to push down on the Cheval de Frise and to lift up the portcullis. It had a two-wheel intake mechanism on a piston so it could take in a boulder, angle up, and score in the high goal. |
TOMAS: Test Of Mecanum And Sensors
TOMAS is our robot for programmers to test with. It was built in 2015 so we could try out mecanum wheels. With TOMAS, our programmers have learned gyroscopes, encoders, servos, distance sensors, and even vision processing. Every year when we bring in new programmers, the first robot they get to work with is TOMAS. Since its creation, it has become a bit more than a practice robot. It's been equipped with an amp, speakers, LEDs, and sleigh shaped panels so it can be paraded throughout the school halls during our school's Christmas party. Students love seeing it and it allows our team to have a stronger presence within our school. |
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Wile E. : We Inspire Little Engineers Everyday
Wile E. is our parade robot, which was built in 2018. We designed Wile E. to show what we can give to the community. |