WildStang Robot Building process Road map

WildStang students learn to follow distinct phases of the engineering process.

1. Investigation, requirements and information gathering
   1. Brainstorming, gathering robot and game information


2. Requirement and concept reviews
   1. Go through the process of elimination for “realistic” and “un-realistic” ideas.
   2. Consider all requirements (mechanical, drive system, software component, electrical, strategy, feasibility study)


3. Prototyping and Design
   1. Build the prototype to familiarize ourselves with a functional model and to test for certain important features prior to building the actual robot.


4. Implementation
   1. Start building the actual robot from the design.


5. Testing and Quality assurance
   1. Go through a series of testing on the robot.
   2. Perform stress test cases on the actual playing field against other robots at the WildStang Invitational.


6. Post-production process
   1. We carefully make minor adjustments to the robot based on our original game strategy.


7. Competition
   1. This is the fun part; after 6-8 intense weeks, we finally get to play in the game.
   2. Students and mentors get quite involved in the robot competition. We also exchange technical knowledge with other teams and learn more about other teams’ designs.

Every year we use the same process to make our robot. This helps ensure the quality of the final robot. Students also get to work on the project using a real world engineering approach.