Team 25

The team's work has been mainly focused in two distinct areas. First, the building of the ASTM testing apparatuses has almost come to complete. The hurdle test is complete and the finishing up of the pitch/roll testing will happen very soon. The other main area of work is focused on the building of the Clutch City Engineers Rover (CCESR). The CCESR build has had another redesign during this time frame by adding another set of wheels on the other side of the rover’s axle. This will hopefully help the rover have better traction going over a variety of obstacles.

 

There has been no major obstacles that have happened during this time frame. James Arce bought a new 3D printer for personal use and also to help the team have access to a printer that can print with much better resolution. This has allowed the team to build gears and wheels that are noticeably better printed. While this wasn’t an urgent challenge, the Clutch City Engineers expect that this new printer will help the rover chances of passing validation.

 

The main plan for this next week is to complete the coding and building of the rover and possibly start testing the rover on the testing apparatus. The coding of the rover’s controller could take some time as the rover is using a tank-like steering system which could make the coding process more difficult. Also, the team is using non-reversible ESC’s but is considering adding reversible ESC’s to make the rover steering system more complete. The team hopes to get the rover on the testing apparatuses soon to hopefully help make the necessary improvements to get the rover to pass validation.

 

This picture shows one of the ASTM testing apparatuses built for our project.

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The most updated picture of the rover build.