A guided setup, step by step
Nine short programs walk a student through setting up the robot, from checking every motor to tuning each shot, and each one remembers what the last one found.
FTC · For BIOBUZZ · Open source
BIOBUZZ
Robot Simulator.
The team's robot code, plus a browser simulator that runs that exact code on a virtual robot, so setup and tuning can be practised before the robot exists.
16 / 16
Shots scored in the simulator
21
Practice faults built in
9
Guided setup steps
30
Automatic tests
- Area
- FTC
- Built for
- FTC Team 19859, for BIOBUZZ
- Role
- We designed and coded the whole system.
- Status
- Sim-proven. Real robot pending.
- Stack
- Java 17 · FTC SDK 12.0 · Pedro Pathing 3.0.1 · Python · JavaScript
- Works with
- BIOBUZZ AutoTool
What it is
What it
What it
is.
Our team's BIOBUZZ robot is not built yet, but its code is. This project lets us practise anyway: it runs our real robot code on a virtual robot in the browser, so every setup and tuning step can be rehearsed before the real robot exists.
BIOBUZZ is the FTC game in which robots collect game elements and shoot them into goals. Our robot has two shooters, so tuning it by hand is long and easy to get wrong.
How it works
How it
How it
works.
Shooting settings that stay reliable
Measured shots are smoothed into a table the robot can trust between the points we actually tested.
Practise with problems on purpose
Twenty-one built-in faults, such as a reversed motor, let students learn to spot and fix mistakes before they cost a match.
The result
What it
What it
showed.
With tuning done, both of our autonomous routines score 16 of 16 shots in the simulator and finish with time to spare. That is proven in simulation only; the real robot comes next.
What I learned
What I
What I
learned.
Test before the hardware exists
Waiting for the robot would have pushed all of the tuning into the last weeks before competition. Running our real code on a virtual robot first means mistakes show up while they are still cheap to fix.
A long job becomes followable steps
Tuning a two-turret shooter is long and easy to get wrong. Splitting it into nine short programs, each using what the last one found, turned it into something any student on the team can follow.
Proven in the sim is not proven on the field
Sixteen of sixteen shots in the simulator is a strong start, not the finish. Saying clearly that the real robot is still pending is part of reporting the result honestly.