2011 game: logo motion



LOGO MOTION(TM) is played by two competing alliances on a flat 27' x 54' foot field. Each alliance consists of three robots. The compete to hand as many inflated plastic shapes (triangles, circles, and squares" on their grids as they can during a 2 minute and 15 second match. The higher the teams can hang their game pieces on their scoring grid, the more points their alliance receives.



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The Roguepogue, continuing the tradition, was named after our dedicated software mentor Richard Pogue. It took part in the game Logomotion where inner tubes were given to the robot to be hung on pegs which were at 6 different heights. In addition, teams could build a second mini-bot that is deployed by the main robot at the end of the game and climbs a pole for bonus points. We chose to take on both the main and bonus objective when designing this robot. In the end we decided on a forklift system controlled by cables and pulleys to hang the inner tubes and a clamping system that the mini bot used by clamping down its traction wheels to the pole and turning those wheels to climb it. We ended up placing 16 out of 60 places.