The 2009 game is called Lunacy. It is played on a 54' x 27' low friction field. Robots are equipped with slippery wheels and payload trailers. Lunacy game pieces are "Orbit Balls" designated as Moon Rocks, Empty Cells, or Super Cells. The object of the game is to attain a higher score than your opponent by placing the game pieces in the trailer hitched to the opposing team's robot. Click here for a more detailed description of the game.

ROBOT FEATURES

Simple, reliable drivetrain with tank drive using one CIM motor on each side geared for top speed of 10.2 feet per second. This allows us to deliver empty cells quickly and also to run away from others trying to score on us.

Modified leafblowers, with CIM motors inside, generate additional propulsion to give us more pushing power and speed on the low friction field.

Large open basket design allows easy and quick loading of empty cells. A slanted surface with a simple gate in the front pulls up, using a Denso windows motor controlled by limit switches, to allow the empty cells to roll out.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Traverse City FIRST Robotics District Competition
       Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award
       Picked 8th overall in the elimination round and were quarter finalist

Detroit FIRST Robotics District Competition
       Rookie All-Star Award
       Picked 5th overall in the elimination round and were quarter finalist

FIRST Robotics Michigan State Championship
       Michigan State Rookie All-Star Award
       Highest Rookie Seed Award
       Ranked 11th out of the top 64 teams in Michigan
       Alliance Captain #8 and were quarter finalist
       Qualified for the FIRST Robotics World Championship in Atlanta, Georgia

FIRST Robotics World Championship
       Finished with a Win-Loss record of 4-3 and seeded 23rd out of 87 teams in our division