First Tech Challenge 2021 Robot
Summary
This was my team’s robot for our final competition of the season. The objective of this robot is to deposit small blocks and balls onto wobbling goals. I led the design of the robot and developed the arm and intake system. The arm uses a virtual 4 bar linkage to keep the depositing bucket level. This robot won many design awards at local competitions.
CAD Design
• Entire design is driven by a central part file containing sketches and variables that outline each major subassembly.
• Each component of the master assembly is a derived part of the central outline file
(called layout)
o The use of layout sketches reduces design iteration time.
o Updating the central layout file updates every part in the assembly so that everything can be easily tuned and optimized.
o Each part is still a separate file (as opposed to multi-body parts) so proper assembly organization can be maintained.
