Electrical Lead and Deputy - Roles and Responsibilities

• Electrical, pneumatic, and sensor systems
• Responsibility - design and deployment of control-plane hardware from battery to motors; all wiring, power budget analysis, and sensor implementations (subject to interface requirements from control systems and systems/integration captain).
• Authority - all electrical design decisions (meeting requirements developed by Systems/Integration).  Sensor selection and placement (meeting requirements developed by Systems/Integration and Control Systems).  All sensor firmware (Arduino).
• Potential deputy roles:
  • sensors
• Duties:
  • Study best control systems practices of top teams
  • Develop/document standard electrical processes and resources
  • Fall:
    • Electrical team training: electricity, safety, electronics, batteries, motors/actuators, sensors, cabling/soldering/crimping, schematic diagrams
    • Assist mechanical team in electrical construction of training robots and test fixtures
  • Build:
    • Assembly, wiring, testing of actuators, sensors, pneumatics, control-plane hardware
  • After robot is finished (used to be "Post-Bag"):
    • Assembly, wiring, pneumatics, of spare robots for driver and CS practice
    • Develop, execute test plan in cooperation with mech lead(s)
    • Preparation for rapid-repair during competition
    • Write technical documents for awards judging (subject to Operations Lead)
  • Competition: rapid diagnosis, repair in pit of robot