1. Great Robot Designs in FRC History
Andy Baker
President and Co-owner, AndyMark, Inc.

2. Background BSME, University of Evansville
, Delphi Corporation
1998-today, FRC Mentor (teams 45, 3940)
2003, Championship WFA
2004, co-founded AndyMark, Inc.
Co-founder:
IRI, Indiana FIRST, Championship Conferences, WFA committee
FRC event volunteer (inspector, referee, etc.)

3. Objectives Highlight designs that changed FRC
Give credit to teams who created now-commonplace FRC designs
Recognize the best robots build in FRC
Point out some dramatic design failures
Don’t choose more than one robot from one team

4. My Favorite Indiana FRC Robots
10: Team 461, : Team 234, : Team 829, : Team 1501, : Team 3940, : Team 135, : Team 868, : Team 1024, : Team 45, : Team 71, 2001

5. Top 20 Countdown!
Best Designs

6. 20: Raider Robotix in 2006 (team 25)
Champs Finalists
No floor feed
Special 6wd Drive Train
All wheels on same plane
Special grooves cut in wheels
Automode win = match win
Also: 2000, 2003

7. 19: Cheesey Poofs in 2011 (team 254)
World Champions
Excellent multi-stage telescoping lift system
Excellent mini-bot design and depoloyment
Highlight video
Simple, clean, elegant
Also: 2014, 2002, 2009

8. 18: Bionic Bulldogs in 2002 (team 60)
Could lift and spin two goals, weighing 180 pounds each
Introduced wedgetop tread to FIRST
Powdercoat everything
First team to focus on neat packaging

9. 17: Royal Assault “Jester Drive” in 2005, 2006 (team 357)
Mecanum Wheels, what?
Omni-directional
Airtrax Forklift

10. 16: Beach Bots in 2005 (team 330) World Champions Single Actuation Arm
Wedge Sides
Easy to Control
KISS vs. Complex
Match Video

11. 15: TechnoKat “TKO” in 1999 (team 45)
Shifting transmission, led to creation of AndyMark, Inc.
Metal track drive (eventually deemed illegal)
Bullied other teams with arm, dominating the puck
Only matches lost were matches when something broke
World Finalists
Also: 1998, 1992, 2004

12. 14: WPI and Mass Academy in 2004 (190)
Dominated top bar, covering and traversing
Could score 2x ball while hanging
Telescoping arm
CVT drive train
Match video
Also: 2008, 2007

13. 13: Hexcalibur from 1996 (team 146)
On display at FIRST headquarters in Manchester
Polished Robot
Perfect score in almost every round

14. 12: D’Penguineers in 2012 (team 1717)
Smooth Swerve
Vision Tracking Shooter
Accurate Shooter
Efficient Floor Pickup
Effective Balancer
30 Point End Game
Highlight Reel
Also: 2009

15. 11: CHAOS in 2000 (team 131) Simple design
Student build, from necessity
De-score opponent’s black ball
Took out team 47’s best robot
Match video vs

16. 10: Grasshoppers in 2002 (team 95)
Re-defined ball pickup
Tube roller, with much power
Optimized traction on ball
Sacrificed drivetrain power
Here’s a video

17. 9: The Pink Team Extension Arm (team 233)
Teams start calling extension arms “Pink Team Extension Arms”
Single-actuated, multi-stage cascading tubular arm
CNC milled patterns
Strong shoulder joint
Roller claw
Many years of use
Also: 2005, 2011

18. 8: ThunderChickens in 2002 (team 217)
Planetary CVT (continuously variable transmission)
Design published during following summer
Replicated by other teams (and those teams even received awards!)
Also: 2006, 2007, 2008

19. 7: Robonauts in 2007 (team 118) Redline Robot 1 main power source
Many, many chains
Swerve drive on steroids
Inspiration for commercial swerve modules
Also: 2003, 2012

20. 6: Hot Team in 2012 (team 67) Efficient design w/ pickup & balance arm
Best shooter in FRC, auto/vision
Alleged victim of sabotage
Also: 2005, 2009, 2000, 2004

21. 5: Wildstang in 2003 (team 111) Stangsense Dominant Automode
Waypoint teaching for automode positioning
King of the hill, with wing-ramps
Swerve drive
Match Play
Also: 1997, 2009, 2011

22. 4: Simbotics in 2008 (team 1114) Dominant automode
Clean ball pickup and punching launcher
Low Cg, low profile
Fast, two speed drive
Match Play
Also: 2004, 2007, 2012, 2014

23. 3: Las Guerrillas in 2010 (team 469)
Broke the game with ball guiding mechanism
Excellent mid-field kicker/scorer
Locked itself into tower
Redirected balls into goals
Surprisingly lost finals of Einstein
Match Video
Also: 2003, 2014, 2009

24. 2: Team Hammond in 2002 (team 71)
Flip over drive base
No steering needed
File card walking beams
3 goal grabbers
Locked the game if goals were grabbed
Match Play
Also: 1997, 2002, 2004

25. 1: ChiefDelphi from 2000 (team 47)
Elegant, welded tubular design
Amazingly large ball collector with actuated rollers
2 wheel swerve drive (w/ 2 casters)
Aluminum bumper
Did amazing things with very limiting robot rules
Match video
Also: 1997, 2000, 2001

26. Thank you
Questions?