Results and Conclusion
The results we achieved weren’t on par with our original objectives. We experienced significant issues regarding stair climbing with our “stairclimber” because of a few factors, most notably lack of power in the motors to suffice climbing stairs. The lack of friction to create a grip for our “butterfly stroke” stair climber to climb the stairs with also played a huge role in the failure of our robotic design. We also experienced a lot of torque, but we couldn’t fit any more gear systems into our design without making it too heavy or too big to actually climb anything. Our design succeeded in climbing about 1.5 stairs after multiple tries, so we got that going for us, which is nice. In all relevance to the issues aforementioned, we regret to inform this proper lab report of our failure to climb the full set of stairs with our Underdog Stair Climber robot.
The reasons for our flawed design is the fact that we didn’t use a second set of arms to properly help out the second one, and our batteries may have also been of issue because their lack of power may have negatively impacted the power of the general system by messing with the motors. Looking back, it is our fault as a group because we failed to properly test the limits of our bot and make sure that our design was capable of climbing multiple steps even though we knew for a fact that it was capable of climbing stairs- just not all of them. Because of this, we attribute designer-error as the major flaw of our system, and as the designers, we assume all responsibility for the inability to climb stairs properly. As such, we assume full responsibility for the percent-error as well, at a whopping 75% (we still have to consider the flawed equipment as factor of our overall failure).
Described in the “RESULTS” section is the failure of of general objective with this project, which was to climb a set of stairs successfully by designing and executing a productive robot. Unfortunately, whether it was by our fault, the equipment’s fault, or a strike by Jesus, we failed our ultimate objective and have thus failed as robotics students of any kind. The fact is, this project was a bit difficult to complete without a pulley/winch system or proper equipment (we were using plastic, amateur equipment to fulfill our objective, when frankly, that’s too difficult to accomplish). In lieu of this, we also wish to state with clarity that we do assume responsibility for the failure of our robotic design and execution, but we also state with clarity that were other factors far from our control that played a part in the failure of this design.
It is with a heavy heart that we admit defeat, but as citizens of this free world and members of this democratic institution, after stating all the factors that were contributors to the general flop of this Stair Climber, we do admit defeat by our unrealistic expectations and we do assume responsibility for not designing a proper-enough design that could’ve competed with the expectations of a major engineering firm. But alas, we were defeated, and our Stair Climber, although wonderful, didn’t climb stairs.
The reasons for our flawed design is the fact that we didn’t use a second set of arms to properly help out the second one, and our batteries may have also been of issue because their lack of power may have negatively impacted the power of the general system by messing with the motors. Looking back, it is our fault as a group because we failed to properly test the limits of our bot and make sure that our design was capable of climbing multiple steps even though we knew for a fact that it was capable of climbing stairs- just not all of them. Because of this, we attribute designer-error as the major flaw of our system, and as the designers, we assume all responsibility for the inability to climb stairs properly. As such, we assume full responsibility for the percent-error as well, at a whopping 75% (we still have to consider the flawed equipment as factor of our overall failure).
Described in the “RESULTS” section is the failure of of general objective with this project, which was to climb a set of stairs successfully by designing and executing a productive robot. Unfortunately, whether it was by our fault, the equipment’s fault, or a strike by Jesus, we failed our ultimate objective and have thus failed as robotics students of any kind. The fact is, this project was a bit difficult to complete without a pulley/winch system or proper equipment (we were using plastic, amateur equipment to fulfill our objective, when frankly, that’s too difficult to accomplish). In lieu of this, we also wish to state with clarity that we do assume responsibility for the failure of our robotic design and execution, but we also state with clarity that were other factors far from our control that played a part in the failure of this design.
It is with a heavy heart that we admit defeat, but as citizens of this free world and members of this democratic institution, after stating all the factors that were contributors to the general flop of this Stair Climber, we do admit defeat by our unrealistic expectations and we do assume responsibility for not designing a proper-enough design that could’ve competed with the expectations of a major engineering firm. But alas, we were defeated, and our Stair Climber, although wonderful, didn’t climb stairs.