Game Discription

In honor of the 40th an­niver­sary of the 1969 moon land­ing, the field is made with a spe­cial ma­te­r­ial and teams have to use spe­cial wheels. With those two fac­tors, the ro­bots have very lit­tle trac­tion to repli­cate the moon’s low grav­ity. Each ro­bot, three per team, pulls a trailer be­hind them. The ro­bots from the other team tries to get a ball into the op­pos­ing team’s trail­ers.

Official Game Rules

LU­NACY is played on a 54′ x 27′ low fric­tion field. Ro­bots are equipped with slip­pery wheels and pay­load trail­ers. LU­NACY game pieces are “Or­bit Balls” des­ig­nated as Moon Rocks, Empty Cells, or Su­per Cells. Two three-team ro­bot al­liances col­lect and score Or­bit Balls in trail­ers at­tached to the op­pos­ing teams’ ro­bots. Hu­man play­ers are po­si­tioned around the perime­ter of the arena and can score from their sta­tions. Ro­bots are au­tonomous dur­ing the first 15 sec­onds of play, and tele­op­er­ated for the re­main­ing 2 min­utes. Trail­ers be­gin each match empty, and ro­bots may be loaded with up to 7 Moon Rocks by their team prior to the start of the match. Hu­man play­ers are equipped with 20 Moon Rocks, less than the num­ber they load into their ro­bot, and a quan­tity of Empty Cells and Su­per Cells de­ter­mined by the out­come of their pre­vi­ous match. If a team has not yet played a match, the hu­man player re­ceives 4 Empty Cells and 2 Su­per Cells. Moon Rocks and Empty Cells scored in an op­po­nent’s trailer, at any time and by any player, are worth 2 points. Su­per Cells scored in an op­po­nent’s trailer are worth 15 points. Su­per Cells must be “ac­ti­vated” be­fore they can be played. Ac­ti­va­tion oc­curs when a ro­bot de­liv­ers an Empty Cell from their Out­post to their Fu­el­ing Sta­tion. Empty Cells can be de­liv­ered through­out the match. Su­per Cells may only be played dur­ing the last 20 sec­onds of a match.

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Specifications

• Height: 50”, Width:27.5”, Length:37.5”
• Weight: 117 lbs.
• Speed: 12 fps

Overview

Mizuki was de­signed to be an com­pet­i­tive ro­bot. Our ro­bot is ex­tremely ma­neu­ver­able and is ca­pa­ble of rapidly fir­ing balls into the op­pos­ing al­liance trail­ers.

Design

The ro­bot de­sign was in­ten­tion­ally kept as sim­ple as pos­si­ble to al­low us to con­cen­trate on per­fect­ing the de­sign. Our con­veyor sys­tem is a two-staged con­veyor sys­tem that uses a solid-core round ure­thane belt­ing. The two stage con­veyor sys­tem al­lows us to eas­ily con­trol how many balls we have in our pos­ses­sion and where they are in our sys­tem at one time.