What is ROBOT?? An entity designed for some specific Task. In other words Your imagination.

.It is the engineering science and technology of robots, and their design, manufacture, application, and structural disposition. Robotics is related to electronics, mechanics, and software. Classification of Robotics 1). Manual Robotics. 2). Semi-Autonomous Robotics. 3). Autonomous Robotics (programming based). Problem Statement (KNOCK NEVIS)
To begin with, lets go through the problem statement of the event. To construct two manually controlled robots. Land robot and Aqua robot shall work simultaneously and start scoring points when the land robot places the cubical blocks on the aqua robot anchored at starting zone, the aqua robot has to carry all those blocks and reach a defined zone and place the blocks there.

About Making Robot First you would need to decide the material that you would be using to make the platform/chassis of the robot. It basically means the part on which you would be mounting motors and supporting the mechanisms. You can use wood, aluminum, tin sheet, fiber glass for base, etc. For this event you can make base of aluminum or tin metal sheet of specified dimension. Then you need to mount the motors on the chassis. Make sure that the rpm of both the motors you have used can help in climbing the inclined part. Lesser the R.p.m more is the torque offered, easier to climb the incline. Below are some images of motors. We would suggest that you use four 200 rpm or 100rpm gear motors (or motors with gear box) for movement of the land robot.

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Motor Clamping Materials: Attach the motors using the U clamps to the base. Drill holes into the base and keep the motors with the motor shaft on the outside of the base.

Then attach wheels to the motor shafts and make sure that you dont attach the wheel to the shaft using adhesives like Fewi kwik. Attach it by using allen screws or any type of screw. It would be best if you attach the motor shafts to the wheels using flanges. If you want to make a speedy robot, then a wheel of a relatively large diameter should be used. This is because the motor gives a fixed rpm and to increase the linear speed, we need to increase the diameter. Since v=*r, where = angular velocity Wires: Always try to keep the wires long enough so that it does not create a problem during maneuvering of the bot. If the wire length Instead of insulation tapes try and solder the wires to the motors and the power supply. Power Supply: The most important (and the most neglected) part of any robot design is the power supply. Many a times you see good robots failing at the time of competition due to poor power supply design. Always check if your power supply is enough to supply required current; even at critical times

when motors suddenly take more current due to change in load or especially when your motor is moving upward in inclination or crossing check points in these events. Always check power source (adapter or battery) if it can provide full load current and voltage to your motor while increasing load torque on motor shaft. Also check terminal voltage at wire end as long wires can ruin regulated feature of your dc supply. Its better to use SMPS for mechanical robot competition so that you have an option of variable voltage. If you are using an adapter, check if it is fulfilling motor specifications. Switching To provide the bidirectional movement in motor, the polarity of supply must be inverted. For "Polarity Reversal" DPDT switches are generally used.

Mechanism Aqua robot: Task of the Bot is to sail in the water and place the cubes at the specified zone. Since the bot has to travel in 2 dimensions only and need not go inside the water, we have many different ways to approach.

One of the oldest ways to navigate a boat is to use oars. The oars can be controlled by motors to move in a circular or an elliptical path. However it has to be kept in mind that bot dimensions should not exceed 25cm x 25 cm x 25cm.

Technology advances, so on designs. New modifications are made. Paddle wheel boat came into existence. Paddle wheel boat can be constructed by attaching paddle wheel to the motor.

Videos showing the working of an oar are : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VldW8P1zFks&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0G35-xoRfA&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW8N49IyXyY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhYmtSW7TNI&feature=player_embedded More new designs were invented. We can also use propellers for navigation.

Motors should be well insulated in case of aqua robot in order to avoid water from entering into motor.This may damage your motor during competition. Also check your robot properly before coming for competition to avoid any kind of delay at the time of the event which can otherwise lead to straight disqualification of the team. For picking up the cubes we need a picking mechanisms.Things that are to be kept in mind while constructing are gripping and picking mechanisms. There are many different ways to hold a cube.

Some links showing pick and place mechanism:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JdATPCvbYo http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7700436175988010356#

We are sure, you can make a simple robot with desired mechanism easily now. We are always there to help you anytime All the best..!!!!!