VEX Swept Away Prototype:
How our Clawbot changed over the time???
Evaluation Of Claw-Sweeper and Overview of all the Changes.
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So our robot has been through a number of changes and new addition to its structure so that it does better in the VEX Swept Away Competition. So, Robot at the start was quite simple it has a movable claw which was attached to base and the base was attached to a set of Traction wheels and had a big grill in the front and small grill in the back which helped blocking and pushing balls but then we realized that either these traction wheels were just helping in speed but not turning side to side or was the small grill in the back helping with pushing more balls or blocking the opponent so then me & my group decided to add a pair of omni wheels and put a bigger grill in the back since we thought it would help in turning and also the speed would stay high but what happened was that during testing it the bot was not moving in a straight path but the front wheels were going straight but the back wheels were turning it side ways but our big grill in the back gave us a positive result as the blocked amazingly and scored way more points then we decided to change the front wheels too and we put omni wheels on it and the results were positive it really helped in fast turning and the speed too. But then in the 2nd test we found out that our claw was not efficient so we decided to take the ready-made claw off and making a new mega claw out of metal pieces and we wasted a lot of time on this claw and we could not really get a chance to majorly test but we had conducted some minor test and it seemed to work. We decided to use this robot for competition we used this mega-claw in the first game but this claw did nit work and did poor , so then we decided to put ready-made claw back on the robot and this worked and held the balls.
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All of the Editions of Our Robot.
First EditionThis is the First edition of our robot we made. this robot by mainly using the instruction but we also added some stuff that we thought would work side by side like smaller towers for the claw. This edition of robot was kind of simple and had a small grill on back and had omni wheels back and traction wheels in the front. we later decide to change the claw, wheels and the grill.
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Second EditionThis is the Second Edition of our robot this robot still had majority of features from the first edition but we changed the front wheels and added omni wheels, we added and custom mega-claw and a big grill in the back.
But the stuff we changed or added did not work , so we decide to go kind of back to the original design. |
Third SectionThis is Third and final edition of the robot it had the ready-made claw and the wheels were the omni wheels both in the front and back.
we used this robot for our 2 last games for VEX Swept Away Competition. |