Wednesday 1/7 Scrum Notes

1. What did I do today?
2. What will I do tomorrow?
3. What’s standing in my way?

Tote AND Barrel Pick-up System

• Today
  • We’re going to combine the stacker with the wheeled grabbing system
  • Stack in front of the robot in a (really big — cf. David’s hand gesture) magazine
  • “Lock-pick” lifter design from Ri3D
  • Combine with extendable arm to reach around and grab/throw containers out of the way during autonomous (key thought: knock containers into Auto area!)
  • Do we want a magazine of totes in the robot or just stack in front of us?
    • Ri3D stacks aren’t always aligned (but we could have a stack straightener-upper stick or something)
    • Ri3D backs-and-forths a lot to build stack… but uses the grabber arms to align with bottom box to build stack
    • How do we put down the stack once it’s in the magazine?
    • Holding the totes out in front of the robot requires a lot of careful center of mass calculations
• Planning
  • Mr. Wells leads a team to work on center of mass problems
  • Mr. Roche leads a team to work on the wheeled grabber
  • Mr. Roche is working getting the RoboRIO working
  • Mr. Wells

Field Elements

• Today
  • Step constructed
  • Scoring platform constructed
• Planning
  • Mailboxes are down the road