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Qualifier 3 – Berean Christian High School, Walnut Creek
Yesterday our team was notified that a spot had opened up at the Walnut Creek Qualifier that was going to be held the following day. After deliberating, we decided to go just for fun, as a last hurrah before officially going offseason. We were able to pull together a skeleton crew of 6 members.
This qualifier ended up being a major milestone for our team! Our robot performed consistently and scored well for our alliance partners–well enough to be 4th seed (4th place) in the qualification rounds. This put us in a position to select our alliance partner for the semifinals, and have a chance at getting into finals and thus qualifying for regionals.
After advancing through the semi-finals, Omega unfortunately lost the extremely close final, but nevertheless we are proud of getting this far–the farthest we’ve ever gone in Omega history.
We won the following awards:
- Finalist Alliance Captain
- Think Award
- Inspire Award, 1st Runner Up
- Control Award, 1st Runner Up
- Connect Award, 2nd Runner Up
We are so proud of our entire team for working hard to constantly improve the robot and code, specifically: Nidhir Guggilla (Captain), Justin Do (Co-Captain), Tommy Vo Tran (Programming Lead), Trinity Chen (Mechanical Lead), and our mentor, Kevin, who was very busy that day but still showed up in support. We would also like to thank our parents for supporting us in this last-minute endeavor and throughout the season. Lastly, we would like to thank our semi-finals and finals alliance partner, Team Future 14473.
Next stop: Regionals! (If we are lucky and win the lottery!)
Pictures are below.
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Today, Omega went to our second qualifier of the season, located at Cisco in San Jose and hosted by Tacobots (FTC 11099). We improved greatly from our performance in our last qualifier, having an extremely reliable latching mechanism and improving our autonomous program to consistently sample the gold mineral. Even our win-loss record improved to 2-3 (we mostly lost due to disconnections and bad luck).
Because of our hard work, we were able to take home:
- Rockwell Collins Innovate Award
- Inspire Award, 3rd Place
- Control Award, 2nd Place
Preparation for 2nd Qualifier: Meeting Entries #49-54
Meeting 49
Date: 12/29/18
Time: 1:00-6:00
Attendance: Justin, Trinity, Rebecca
Plans/Goals
- Finish cable management
- Figure out solution to hanging problem
What Was Accomplished
- Mounted electronics
- Found solution to hanging problem by moving the latch back
- A strong spring was used to tension the return cable
Notes/Additional Information
- We have ordered cables that we need to connect the phone and the robot which allows us to test our code
Reflection/Takeaways
- This is the first time we are slightly ahead of schedule! All we need to now is code.
- At first we were hesitant to rebuild, but the risk that we took paid off
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Redesigning & Rebuilding: Meeting Entries #39-48
Meeting 39
Date: 12/10/18
Time: 3:20-6:00
Attendance: Nidhir, Trinity, Josephine, Rebecca, Jonathan
Plans/Goals
- Try to get 3 auto paths done based on encoder values
- CAD a new drivetrain for the planned rebuild
- Send emails to potential sponsors
What Was Accomplished
- Got 1 auto path done (gold center path), framework laid out for rest, just need to calibrate values
- Started sending emails to potential sponsors from list compiled earlier
- Finished CADing drivetrain
Notes/Additional Information
- We plan on doing an entire rebuild for the next 4 weeks
- We tested auto path 2, or gold right path
- We need to finish CADing our robot with the attachments on the new drivetrain
- Our wiring does not disconnect anymore
- We have decided that it is not worth it to go for the crater because we do not have the ability to hug the wall to get there since we cannot strafe
- Depot side now has a verified 72 point auto ⅔ of the cases, and the third case has yet to be tested
- We need to decrease power on the move function because it kept overshooting and the built in pid got stuck in a loop
- We discovered our programming lead’s math is 90% correct and only needs small changes
Reflection/Takeaways
- We are thinking of asking for more monetary donations and calling local businesses to ask about sponsorships
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Qualifier 1 – American High School
This past Saturday, Omega went to our first qualifier of the season. It was hosted at American High School, in Fremont, CA on December 8, 2018. The game this season is Rover Ruckus, and we had a pretty decent robot built and programmed. However, we had connection and autonomous issues, which resulted in a ranking of 14th place. Fortunately, lots of things went right–for example, our lift and intakes worked correctly most of the time, in addition to our planned presentation in front of the judges. For our next qualifier, we plan to rebuild and fix the problems we had in our first competition! Below is a gallery of some pictures from the event.
First Qualifier: Meeting Entry
First Qualifier
Date: 12/8/18
Time: 3:20-6:00
Attendance: Nidhir, Trinity, Josephine, Kathy, Ananya, Tommy, Jonathan, Rebecca, Rohan, Afra, Shivani, Sriteja, Justin
Plans/Goals
- We hope to win at least one judged award, and get to eliminations.
What Was Accomplished
- By Qualification Match 3 we had a reliable delatch auto and reliably could latch in endgame, having a reliable 80 point solo.
- We ranked 14th out of 16th, going 1-4 overall and winning Qualification Match 3.
- Compared to last year, we were able to pass robot inspection and field inspection significantly quicker, and our judge’s interview went significantly quicker.
Notes/Additional Information
- The robot suffered disconnection issues in two out of the five qualification matches that we played. Unfortunately, those disconnects occured in the two matches with low scores (winning alliance scored around 60 points), which we could have won.
- Our latch mechanism broke in match 4, and was quickly repaired.
- A temporary disconnect cause the arm to run full power into the drivetrain, basically causing it to break its own mounting system.
Reflection/Takeaways
- Compared to our last qualifier nearly a year ago, there were several parts which were significant improvements.
- Robot Inspection and Field Inspection were passed quickly because we sized the robot ahead of time and went down the checklist, and added stickers and team numbers.
- The Judging interview, even though it was only practiced once before going in, went relatively smoothly. However, several mistakes were made during the judge’s interview. Even though we brought props to the competition, we didn’t actually bring it into the room to show the Judge’s. Also, some members while describing certain mechanisms of the robot didn’t actually point it out, leaving the judge’s somewhat confused. However, by pointing out CAD drawings from the notebook, we were able to somewhat counteract this issue.
Finalizing & Qualifier Preparation: Meeting Entries #31-38
Meeting 31
Date: 11/30/18
Time: 3:15-6:45
Attendance: Nidhir, Trinity, Sriteja, Justin, Rebecca, Kathy
Plans/Goals
- Finish mech
- Replace standoffs
- Mount left intake farther left
- Mount team marker
What Was Accomplished
- Mounted left intake farther left
- Remounted all electronics
- More space-efficient
- Tested if we fit in size requirements
- Team marker mounted
Notes/Additional Information
- One of the intakes is slightly too big
- We need to fix this
Reflection/Takeaways
- We need to work more efficiently
- Mech should be done very soon
- Next week needs to be dedicated to non-robot stuff
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