Mentor: Max Wu, Dave Akin

Project Leads: Duncan Welch (Mech), Geo Lim (Mech)

Project Members:

The team purchased a ​peanut chassis and built it last year including the drive-base and a minimal control system, however it needs more work to be useful:

• The wheels don't all touch the ground at the same time...this is the perfect opportunity to explore suspension and create a solution that could be used on all peanut bots and gain experience with suspension for use on competition robots.
• The robot lacks camera(s), sensors, and a mechanism to make it do anything useful.

Things to consider:

• FRC rules: COTS gas-filled (pneumatic) shocks (dampers) are legal, but oil-filled shocks are not.

Some sample robot suspension systems:

• ​https://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/36399
• ​http://www.societyofrobots.com/mechanics_robot_suspension_system.shtml
• ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3EkAGGKrzo
• Rocker Bogie: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP7p5Bd2d50 and ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocker-bogie