This year’s FRC challenge has been released! On January 5th, the Riverdale Robotics Team awoke early and drove to Evergreen High School in Vancouver WA. After listening to recorded speeches by Dean Kamen and Woody Flowers, this year’s challenge “Ultimate Ascent” was announced. “Ultimate Ascent” is played on a flat 27’x 54′ field by two competing alliances of three robots each. Each side of the field is wall containing three goals of different heights. Robot’s objectives is to score as many flying disks as they can into the goals during a two minute and fifteen second match. The higher the goal in which the disk is scored, the more points the alliance receives. The match begins with a fifteen second autonomous period in which robots operate independently; disks scored during this period are worth twice as many points. As the match comes to an end, robots have fifteen seconds to attempt to climb and hang from one of the two periods located in the center of the field.
Our team is very excited to be entering our fifth year and we are beginning to prototype potential designs for this year’s robot.
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