Robot Design Executive Summary
If you want to talk about your robot, it is important to have a summary. In this summary, you should shortly present the structure of your robot, its programming, and your field strategy.
We call this robot design summary an RDES.
This is our robot design summary:
1) First, I will introduce you our robot and what it does with the tasks in 2.5 minutes. This is important for you to understand the chapters later!
We developed our robot cyclically, using the PDCA development cycle.
Our hardware contains several innovations, because we developed it further based on the failures of the previous year.
We developed everything based on efficiency, in several stages: basic structure, wheels, attachments, assembly.
2) Now I will present our strategy!
Our strategy consists of 6 rounds, we can score 525 points with it.
We developed the strategy together, based on proximity and similarity of attachments.
We also used the FLLtools design program.
3) Now it's time to introduce our coding!
At the beginning of our career, we programmed in blocky, then we switched to Pybricks python, because it allows us to program more efficiently.
We will use our "Menu" function again this year (with innovations), because it allows us to start a robot quickly and efficiently.
We use modular code, so everyone's program includes the correct settings and helper functions.
Last year, we saved the code on a pen drive, but this year we store the code in a GitHub version manager, so the team can access it from anywhere and by any device.
📝 Task:
Now that you've learned about RDES, make one for your robot!