GJ guys. perhaps the containment and dumping power efficiency and fault tolerance could be improved by moving the bucket pivot near center mass so the natural empty position is "collecting" and natural full position is "dumping", thus low power is needed to operate it. maybe a piston or eccentric mechanism could be used to slow and safety the transition s.t. NO power is needed except to lock the position up/down.
In day two Montana Mule outperformed all the other robots by a large margin winning the competition, and later that night the team was given the Kosmo Award of Excellence for the team that accumulated the most points within all aspects of the competition, design, paper, spirit and performance.
Congrats to the students, advisors, COE and the whole MSU community!
In today's competition the robot performed very well. One wire came off which didn't allow the digging head to lower enough to pick up the moon dirt. None of the 18 schools that actually got their robot into the pit successfully picked up any dirt, most were stuck within a minute. Montana State's Mule crossed the pit, attempted to dig, made it to the drop off point and dumped the load.....but the load was empty. Tonight all the teams got 3 hours with their robots and tomorrow they try again.
You rule!
katheryncruz24 3 months ago
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GJ guys. perhaps the containment and dumping power efficiency and fault tolerance could be improved by moving the bucket pivot near center mass so the natural empty position is "collecting" and natural full position is "dumping", thus low power is needed to operate it. maybe a piston or eccentric mechanism could be used to slow and safety the transition s.t. NO power is needed except to lock the position up/down.
moneyman10k 1 year ago
Day 2 - Botcats Rule!
In day two Montana Mule outperformed all the other robots by a large margin winning the competition, and later that night the team was given the Kosmo Award of Excellence for the team that accumulated the most points within all aspects of the competition, design, paper, spirit and performance.
Congrats to the students, advisors, COE and the whole MSU community!
absorkam 1 year ago
And the Bobcats swoop in for the WIN!!! Way to go CoE!!! WhooHoo!!!
waaterdog 1 year ago
Congratulations to the MSU team! We saw the mule at graduation and have been cheering you on! Way to go MSU.
joelmhubbell 1 year ago
In today's competition the robot performed very well. One wire came off which didn't allow the digging head to lower enough to pick up the moon dirt. None of the 18 schools that actually got their robot into the pit successfully picked up any dirt, most were stuck within a minute. Montana State's Mule crossed the pit, attempted to dig, made it to the drop off point and dumped the load.....but the load was empty. Tonight all the teams got 3 hours with their robots and tomorrow they try again.
absorkam 1 year ago