Small Size Soccer Robots: The Mechanical Design of a Robot for Use in The RoboCup SSL Competition

Lapointe, David

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Small Size Soccer Robots: The Mechanical Design of a Robot for Use in The RoboCup SSL Competition

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The Small Sized Soccer Robots MQP project is an academic year long project which has the final goal of designing and fabricating a team of robots which will compete in the Robocup league. The rationale behind the project is to create a WPI Robocup team which will over the years be a reoccurring MQP project and improve upon itself on a competitive stage. To compete in the Robocup league a team must design and create a team of six working robots that can play a full game of soccer against another team while following the Robocup rules and work independently from a controller and autonomously. The team was split into three different sub-teams consisting of mechanical, electrical, and software development to complete this project over the course of the given project year. As a member of the Mechanical team our goal is designing and manufacturing robot hardware. The final design was arrived upon through multiple weeks of research on opposing teams along with trial and error throughout the manufacturing process. This final design which I created was a full working chassis design for the robot. Once this design was made dynamic and static analyses were done on the robot to prove my design was feasible. After this theoretical analysis was finished the robot was manufactured within Washburn Labs on WPI campus, using CAM software and mill technology. We are currently able to produce two theoretically working physical prototypes which have both been utilized extensively. While at the moment a full team of six robots has not been achieved, the work done is still within our goal as one successful robot means that it can be copied to form the rest of the team.

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