Robot: Spidermonkey
Drive Train
- 6 Wheel Center Dropped
- 2 CIMs Total, Single Speed Gearbox
- Z-Squared Arcade or Tank Steering; EEPROM Selectable from OI
Ringer Handling
- 3 Stage Lift with Surgical Tubing counterbalance
- Pneumatic powered claw to grab and score ringers
Autonomous
- Tracks down a middle level spider foot and scores a keeper
- Autonomous parameters set using EEPROM from Operator Interface
- Only Robot at Silicon Valley Regional to place a ringer
- One of two robots at Lone Star to place ringers with >50% success.
Capabilities
- Two foldout 12″ Ramps for endgame bonus points
Sensors & Electronics
- Optical Encoders on wheels
- 10x turn pot to sense lift posision
- 2 Sharp optical Distance Sensors for placing ringer autonomously
- 16 LED diagnostic display (Serial based comm)
Special Features
The Spidermonkey was the only robot at both Silicon Valley and the Lone Star Regional that could do all of the following:
- score autonomously
- place ringers on all levels
- pickup ringers from the ground
- lift robots
- drive up the ramps of alliance robots
