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We used the tools discussed in Part 1 – Game Theory to determine our strategy and define our Robot Requirements in Part 2 – Robot Requirements which allowed us to prototype our Design Elements in Part 3 – Design Elements for this season’s game (and game manual).  Now we are ready to build a robot. Robot Reveal We are proud to present “untitled robot” for your educational pleasure: Below you…

We used the tools discussed in Part 1 – Game Theory and Part 2 – Robot Requirements to find our overall strategy and list of REQs for this season’s game (and game manual). Now we are ready to start Designing and Prototyping our Design Elements. Design Elements and Prototypes Next, we take the research we did and the requirements we set in Part 2, and define Design Elements (DE).  DEs answer the…

We used the tools discussed in Part 1 – Game Theory to determine our strategy for this season’s game (and game manual). Now we are ready to define our Robot REQuirements (REQ). Check out our Ri3D Robot Requirements explainer video below: Requirements In engineering/business, requirements are the building blocks of a new product.  A requirement is a clearly defined and measurable function of…

Game Theory is a tool used in several fields of science, including Political Science and Economics. For this article, a very simplified version will be used where the model consists of a rational agent (it always chooses to perform the action with the optimal expected outcome for itself from among all feasible actions) competing in a mathematically defined competition. To put it more plainly, we…

Robot friends, we are so excited to share that after a five year hiatus denkbots are back! Ten years ago we began our Conceptual Robot in Three Days (cRi3D) experiment to help share our Requirements Based Robot Design process with the FIRST community. We shared this process in 2016 for Stronghold, in 2017 for Steamworks, in 2018 for Power Up, in 2019 for Deep Space, and in 2020 for Infinite…

cRi3D INFINITE RECHARGE Strategy and Research

With a thorough understanding of the this season’s game and game manual along with tools discussed in Part 1 – Game Theory we are ready to talk strategy!

Strategery

Now that we have a tool to evaluate the optimal scoring of an FRC game we can add constraints to our rational agent (for example, the robot is only allowed to operate on ground level) and approximate the scoring…

cRi3D INFINITE RECHARGE Game Theory

Game Theory is a tool used in several fields of science including Political Science and Economics.  For this article a very simplified version will be used where the model consists of a rational agent (it always chooses to perform the action with the optimal expected outcome for itself from among all feasible actions) competing in a mathematically defined competition.

To put it more plainly,…

CELEBRATING FOUR YEARS OF DENKBOTS

WE ARE FOUR YEARS OLD!

To celebrate our birthday, keep being awesome in 2020!

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Ready to wrap up #DestinationDeepSpace with our Robot Reveal? Then join us as we reveal our #cRi3D or, Conceptual Robot in Three Days! #omgrobots #Ri3D

We used the tools discussed in Part 1 – Game Theory to determine our strategy in Part 2 – Strategy and Research which allowed us to defined our Robot Requirements in Part 3 – Robot Requirements for this season’s game (and game manual).  Now we are ready to build a robot.

The Reveal

To keep this conceptual Robot in Three Days as approachable as possible, we are going to start with…

Ready to dive into #DestinationDeepSpace with a some Robot Requirements? Then join us as we begin Part Three of our #cRi3D or, Conceptual Robot in Three Days! #omgrobots #Ri3D

We used the tools discussed in Part 1 – Game Theory to determine our strategy in Part 2 – Strategy and Research for this season’s game (and game manual). Now we are ready to define our Robot REQuirements (REQ).

Requirements

In engineering/business, requirements are the building blocks of a new product.  A requirement is a clearly defined and measurable function of the product.  When…

Ready to dive into #DestinationDeepSpace with a little Strategy and Research? Then join us as we begin Part Two of our #cRi3D or, Conceptual Robot in Three Days! #omgrobots #Ri3D

With a thorough understanding of the this season’s game and game manual along with tools discussed in Part 1 – Game Theory we are ready to talk strategy!

Strategery

Now that we have a tool to evaluate the optimal scoring of an FRC game we can add constraints to our rational agent (for example, the robot is only allowed to operate on ground level) and approximate the scoring…

cRi3D DEEPSPACE Game Theory

Game Theory is a tool used in several fields of Science including Political Science and Economics.  For this article a very simplified version will be used where the model consists of a rational agent (it always chooses to perform the action with the optimal expected outcome for itself from among all feasible actions) competing in a mathematically defined competition.

To put it more plainly,…

CELEBRATING THREE YEARS OF DENKBOTS

WE ARE THREE YEARS OLD! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DENKBOTS! To celebrate our birthday, keep being awesome in 2019!

If you would like to follow along with our post-BattleBots journey (like exclusive teasers, podcasts, and build videos) and future content please like us on Facebook; follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, and Google+; subscribe on YouTube; and fumble us on Tumblr!

3D Printing and Emotional Intelligence in FIRST

Hello Friends!

After the success of last year’s talks “3D Printing and Robot Requirements in the FIRST Community” we decided to add a new talk!

Thank you to everyone that attended our talks “3D Printing in the FIRST Community” and “Emotional Intelligence in FIRST” at this year’s IndianaFIRST Forums at Purdue and Indiana University!  We hope you were inspired to implement 3D Printing and an…

We used the tools discussed in Part 1 – Game Theory to determine our strategy in Part 2 – Strategy and Research which allowed us to defined our Robot Requirements in Part 3 – Robot Requirements for this season’s game (and game manual).  Now we are ready to build a robot. The Reveal To keep this conceptual Robot in Three Days as approachable as possible, we are going to start with the AM14U3, KoP…

We used the tools discussed in Part 1 – Game Theory to determine our strategy in Part 2 – Strategy and Research for this season’s game (and game manual). Now we are ready to define our Robot REQuirements (REQ). Requirements In engineering/business, requirements are the building blocks of a new product.  A requirement is a clearly defined and measurable function of the product.  When running…