Swerve Robots Overview | QUEEN QVEX | VURC Robot Rundown

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Hello, my name is Maxim. Uh we are Queen from Kingston, Ontario and these are our robots.

[00:00:06]Uh let's start with the 24-in. Uh so, our original design for our hopper actually had the intake on the uh the scoring on the opposite side where the intake is. Uh but, it was very heavy that way and so, it would tip all the time.

[00:00:17]Uh on this version, we have moved it all the way to the opposite side and we kind of noticed, "Oh, that kind of looks like a relay gun." So, we just bent it and then we added a hopper in the vacant area that was above it.

[00:00:28]Uh we have a really nice bucket that can hold around 50 blocks. We have a plenty of agitation all around. These are uh all powered by two motors, right?

[00:00:37]This entire area is very well agitated letting us to feed the blocks very cleanly.

[00:00:42]Uh they go all the way up to here. We can score on bottom goal. We have a color sensor that decides if it goes through. Then, we have a second color sensor at the top to decide whether or not we want to feed the blocks back in or not.

[00:00:53]Uh we also have a sunroof that is also actuated so, we can use it as a B score.

[00:00:59]We have B scores on the sides.

[00:01:01]Uh and then we did an expansion for this one and we made it more rigid since it's the 24-in.

[00:01:06]On the 15-in, uh it collapses [music] perfectly into this little block. Uh we have a couple of hooks over here that keep that make sure that it's down and doesn't actually come up when we don't want it to. And then when we want it to come up, we just pop the conveyor and then it goes up like so.

[00:01:25]The snap here lets the robot actually expand a little bit more as well, which gives us a little bit more capacity of around 35 blocks for this robot. Uh we also use swerves. These are the same similar swerves from last year. We've done some improvements. We increased the uh gear uh we increased the RPM. Uh we have made it a traction wheel, which gives us a huge amount of traction on the field. If we put them in an X drive configuration, we can easily uh stay in place while getting pushed around. Uh we use a custom magnetic encoder that goes on the top. There's a little magnet in the top that keeps track of rotation.

[00:01:58]This is a differential. So, when both of them spin together, the the wheel spins, right? And when they spin together, the turret rotates.

[00:02:08]That's how we control our differentials.

[00:02:10]And then the way we cast our wheels is they look like so, right? So, we have a gyroid infill that is used to actually keep the rubber on, and then we use a three-part mold to actually molds together each one of these wheels. This lets us have some fun 3D geometry to allow clearance for the bevel gears on the inside to get the tread a little bit thicker and have a little bit better ground pressure.

[00:02:37]And these are printed in two parts.

[00:02:39]They're connected with dowels, and then they're glued together to make it a nice internal hub that is accurate and lets it spin very concentrically.

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