Day 2 thru 4: Robot Architecture Phase

This occurs the Monday following kickoff

Schedule

Monday (9am to 9pm)

Time	Duration
9:00 am	30 min	Review weekend insights
9:30 am	30 min	Re-watch game animation/field tours
10:00 am	30 min	Add to feature importance
10:30 am	2 hr	Rank feature importance list
12:30 pm	30 min	Lunch
1:00 pm	15 min	Break (Mentors create Architecture Groups)
1:15 pm	1.75 hr	General Robot Architecture Creation - Round 1
3:00 pm	30 min	Dinner
3:30 pm	2 hr	General Round 1 Robot Architecture Presentation Consolidation/Feature Importance Checkoff
5:30 pm	30 min	Clean up
6:00 pm	-	Meeting ends

Tuesday (1st Day Back, 3:45 to 9pm)

Time	Duration
2:30 pm	15 min	Review Team Updates (Manual Updates) Re-watch game animation
2:45 pm	15 min	Review feature importance list
3:00 pm	50 min	Re-present concept ideas
3:50 pm	1 hr	Break into two groups
4:50 pm	40 min	Present ideas 15 min per group Last 5 min,cover feature importance list
5:30 pm	15 min	Break
5:45 pm	15 min	Find similarities and differences Similarities are locked in
6:00 pm	30 min	Comparative analysis spreadsheet of differences (features vs complexity) Define ACTIONS of contention Break down by mutually exclusive mechanisms
6:30 pm	15 min	Design Decided, Split Architecture into Mechanisms
6:45 pm	15 min	Break Mentors Make Mechanism groups
7:00 pm	30 min	Work on base structures/variable prototypes in groups Software creates base robot/structures code
7:30 pm	15 min	Clean up
7:45 pm	-	Meeting ends

Tuesday (3:45pm to 9pm)

Time	Duration
3:45 am	15 min	Regroup Weekend Insights
4:00 am	15 min	Re-watch game animation/field tours
4:15 am	30 min	Review/Add to feature importance items
4:45 pm	1.5 hr	Feature Importance List ranking/answer design consideration questions
6:15 pm	30 min	Dinner Mentors create Architecture Groups Prep areas, have whiteboard stacks and computers in
6:45 pm	15 min	Presentation Retrobot Example
7:00 pm	1.5 hr	Round 1 - General Robot Architecture Creation
8:30 pm	30 min	Finalize presentations (ready to present first thing next day)
9:00 pm	-	Meeting Ends

Wednesday (3:45 to 9pm)

Time	Duration
3:45 pm	15 min	Review Team Updates (Manual Updates) Re-watch game animation
4:00 pm	15 min	Review feature importance list
4:15 pm	30 min	Group 1 Archetype Presentation, Feature Importance Satisfaction/Round 1 Complexity Factors
4:45 pm	30 min	Group 2 Archetype Presentation, Feature Importance Satisfaction/Round 1 Complexity Factors
5:15 pm	30 min	Group 3 Archetype Presentation, Feature Importance Satisfaction/Round 1 Complexity Factors
5:45 pm	30 min	Identify design driving mechanism for each archetype
6:15 pm	15 min	Narrow down to 2 Archetypes, Look at simularity, Compare Complexity vs Feature importance list
6:30 pm	30 min	Dinner (Mentors make round 2 Groups)
7:00 pm	15 min	List all out minor mechanisms from all archetypes
7:15 pm	1.5 hr	Begin round 2 archetypes creation (make best full robot with assigned design driving mechanism, and any combo of minor mechanism, with emphasis on packaging/simplicty)
8:45 pm	15 min	Clean up/Have Slides ready to present on friday
9:00 pm	-	Meeting ends

Friday (3:45 to 9pm)

Time	Duration
3:45 pm	15 min	Review Team Updates (Manual Updates) Re-watch game animation
4:00 pm	15 min	Review feature importance list
4:15 pm	30 min	Group 1 Archetype Presentation, Feature Importance Satisfaction/Complexity Factors
4:45 pm	30 min	Group 2 Archetype Presentation, Feature Importance Satisfaction/Complexity Factors
5:15 pm	30 min	Narrow down to 1 Archetype, Evaluate Complexity vs Feature Importance List
5:45 pm	45 min	Minor Mechanism Analysis/Complexity Factors, Choose which minor mechanism to start with, you can rate minor mechansims from past archetypes if needed
6:30 pm	30 min	Dinner (Mentors make mechanism groups)
7:00 pm	2 hr	Mechanical splits into variable prototyping/protobot groups Software lists out states, guess motor counts, define motor categories, assign motors to states, create issues by clustered categories, protobot skeleton code, assign buttons
9:00 pm	-	Meeting ends