Strategy and Overview

Our combine style robot on the arena.

Our strategy is to play the table-top, gathering all the balls and depositing them into our funnel. We are planning on completely disregarding the balls in the slot due to the large weight advantage of the balls on the table top.

Our concept is to build a combine style vehicle that will 'harvest' the balls on the table top into a central hopper, the vehicle can then drive over our funnel to deposit the balls. The main components of the bot consist of the harvester wheel on the front to collect the balls, the frame/hopper that will hold all of the balls as we drive around the table, and finally the tracked drivetrain that will give us the ability to drive over the slot as well as small defenses put in place by our opponents.

An overview of our combine bot.