Game Discription

Two teams of three ro­bots each com­pete in a game sim­i­lar to soc­cer. They try to get the balls in the goals with­out in­cur­ring penal­ties and/or tip­ping over. At the end of the game, a ro­bot can lift it­self up onto the bars in the mid­dle. An­other ro­bot from the same team can sus­pend off of the al­ready hang­ing ro­bot.

Official Game Rules

Break­away is the 2010 FRC Com­pe­ti­tion, which fea­tures goals, bumps, and soc­cer balls. Ro­bots must kick soc­cer balls into cor­ner goals for one point each. They must ma­neu­ver around or un­der bumps to reach an end of the field. There are six ro­bots com­pet­ing at a time, three on ei­ther al­liance (teams of three). There is 15 sec­onds of Au­tonomous (The ro­bot is not con­trolled by hu­man dri­vers, but by a pro­gram writ­ten by stu­dents), fol­lowed by a two minute Tele­op­er­ated pe­riod (Where teams are al­lowed to drive them­selves). Dur­ing the last 20 sec­onds, hu­man dri­vers can ex­tend their ro­bots be­yond the orig­i­nal max­i­mum di­men­sions of 28 in x 38 in x 60 in.

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Our Robot

General Robot

Our ro­bot this year, dubbed Cra­tus, is de­signed to lift and kick. Cra­tus is de­signed to be fast and ma­neu­ver­able. In au­tonomous mode, we drive for­ward and kick one, two or three balls de­pend­ing on our po­si­tion. Dur­ing tele­op­er­ated pe­riod, we kick balls away from op­po­nents with our highly ac­cu­rate kicker. We are able to score nu­mer­ous goals and de­liver balls to our al­liance suc­cess­fully. Once at the tower, we raise our arm and lift our­selves. There are two bars on each side of our lift for other teams to hang from us. The lift has been tested to sup­port 300 pounds, in­clud­ing the ro­bot. We also have the abil­ity to hang from oth­ers, as needed. This strat­egy gives the al­liance at least two points for our hang­ing, more if oth­ers hang from us, and even more if we score goals when kick­ing. Our ro­bot makes a great ad­di­tion to any al­liance.

Specifications

• Height 60 in, Width 37 in, Length 27 in
• Weight 115 lbs.
• Speed 12 fps.

Actuator

• One CIM motor
• Banebot gearbox
• 27-1 gear ratio
• Two hooks for stability
• Side bars for others to hang from
• Modular design for easy removal
• Two second lift

Kicker

• Kicks 20′ long, and five’ high.
• Bungee cord tensioned
• Window motor powered CAM
• 3-1 gear ratio
• Adjustable angled feet
• Modular design for easy removal

Drive System

• 12.75-1 gear ratio
• 12 ‘ per second speed
• Two tough-boxes per side
• One CIM motor per gear box
• Mecanum wheels
• Great maneuverability

Our Success

2010 Sussex-Hamilton Mini-Regional

This com­pe­ti­tion day was a learn­ing day above all else. Re­turn­ing for the 2nd year,we were able to get a bet­ter han­dle on what our ro­bot was and wasn’t able to do. We learned what im­prove­ments were needed and we learned from our mis­takes. Our dri­ver learned a lit­tle more about the re­stric­tions of our ro­bot and how to bet­ter op­er­ate it. We also re­al­ized that one of the ac­tu­a­tors was not per­form­ing to its high­est stan­dard.

2010 Wisconsin Regional

From Thurs­day the 11th to Sat­ur­day the 13thof March, C.O.R.E. com­peted in the Wis­con­sin Re­gional. It was re­ally in­ter­est­ing for the new mem­bers on the team, as this was their first FIRST ex­pe­ri­ence. But even for the vet­eran mem­bers, it was still fas­ci­nat­ing and fun. Af­ter vo­cif­er­ously sup­port­ing and cheer­ing for our team on Thurs­day, Fri­day, and most of Sat­ur­day, our team was put into the top eight teams, mak­ing us an al­liance cap­tain. We won our first quar­ter fi­nal match, lost the sec­ond, and tied the third. In our tie-breaker, it was a nail-biter, but we un­for­tu­nately lost. We were able to walk away with the Re­gional Un­der­writer’s Lab­o­ra­tory Safety Award (for the third time in a row) and the En­tre­pre­neur­ship Award (for the sec­ond time). We could not wait to head to Min­nesota in just a few weeks!

2010 10,000 Lakes Regional

The 2010 10,000 Lakes Re­gional was held at the Williams Arena in Min­neapo­lis, Min­nesota. The com­pe­ti­tion took place from April 1st to the 3rd. 62 teams were at­tend­ing along with C.O.R.E. This was our sec­ond year at­tend­ing the 10,000 Lakes Re­gional. Be­fore the start of this re­gional, we added a vac­uum to get the soc­cer balls off the wall where we nor­mally could not reach. It worked well and every­one could hear it in the stands. We made an Al­liance with MORE 1714 and Ice 3038 and won the re­gional! On top of that, we won the En­tre­pre­neur­ship Award and earned the most safety to­kens. Our first year we par­tic­i­pated in this re­gional, we made it to the semi­fi­nals and won our first match, but then we were elim­i­nated af­ter los­ing the next two matches. Last year, we were hon­ored to win the Un­der­writer’s Lab­o­ra­tory In­dus­trial Safety Award and the Mo­torola Qual­ity Award.

2010 FIRST Championship

Af­ter win­ning the re­gional at the 10,000 Lakes Re­gional in Min­nesota, we were qual­i­fied to go to the 2010 FIRST In­ter­na­tional Cham­pi­onship. We were very ex­cited that the jour­ney would not be end­ing in Min­nesota. We trav­eled to At­lanta, Geor­gia, to com­pete with the best ro­bots in the world. We made it to the semi­fi­nals in our di­vi­sion, Archimedes. We won the largest amount of safety to­kens in the Cham­pi­onship. Al­though we were dis­ap­pointed not to be able to go on to Ein­stein Cham­pi­onship Field, we knew the fun was not com­ing to an end. We plan to do many ex­cit­ing things this sum­mer and this com­ing year.

Other Components

• Website team worked on updating the website.
• Safety team made sure the entire robotics team was unharmed.
• Animation team did an amazing job making the safety animation and their annual entry to the Autodesk Visualization Award.
• Awards Won: UL Safety Award, and Entrepreneurship Award (twice).