Year 1 Program Varsity Program Engineering Business Competition

This team develops the software to control Competition Robots as well as demostration robots.

The competition robots have both autonomous and teleop (driver controlled) modes using C++ and XML. The utilize many sensors during autonomous to allow the robot to perform its operations.

The demonstration robot code is written in RobotC, C# and C++. Currently, we have the following demonstration robots:

Two (2) that play Connect 4
Aerial Assist which kicks a big exercise ball
Six (6) Barrel T-Shirt Shooter
Nite Fury (Steamworks) that shoots wiffle balls and can place gears

Software Team in Action

Software 2016 Season

Design Process

 

                Software Design Process
                Broke the mechanisms on the robot into subsystems
Subsystem listed for each proposed mechanism design
Eventually shortened to just the final mechanisms
Listed functions subsystems needed to accomplish
Used StarUML to create a use case diagram
Created an input output chart for what would trigger each of the use cases
Designed the class and sequence diagrams for each subsystem
Created a list of test cases to verify that the subsystem performed all of the required tasks
Get mentor approval to start coding
Write the software for that subsystem

                

        
 