Tonight we went back to the same facility that were were in on Saturday. There were 4 more students that wanted to try their hand at robot driving; they were not able to make it on Saturday.
We ran the same series of driving tests with these students and now have a complete detailed description of each of the 10 drivers abilities. Tomorrow we will be meeting again and selecting the 2 students that will represent Team 904 as pilot and co-pilot. We will be holding another set of try-outs for the human player, aka "Payload Specialist" real soon.
Our gyro and accelerometer are now wired up and are ready to be mounted on the robot chassis. Since the floor of the playing field, "the crater" will be low friction, we are trying to come up with a traction control method that uses the accelerometer that will reduce wheel slippage. Tonight we experimented with using a simple ramp-up algorithm on the drive motors, which may prove to be sufficient.
Two weeks from now is the build deadline. All teams will need to box up their robots and ship them out, except for Michigan teams. Two weeks from tonight we will be putting our robot in a large baggy and sealing it shut until our first competition. This saves on shipping costs and Michigan teams sure need all the cost savings we can get.
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