In this second year of the Cyber Ents robotics team, we designed and built a robot to compete in competitions where two alliances, each consisting of two teams of high school students, compete to climb a mountain and score debris in alliance specific goals.
The biggest challenge for us was climbing the mountain with uneven rungs.
As the head of the mechanical team, I took on the challenge of the wheels, while others took on programming for the autonomous period, picking up debris, and the final pull-up onto the top bar at the end.
Here is our robot with an early “daisy” wheel design:
I went through many iterations of wheel designs before ending up with a wheel studded with retractable spike
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