{"id":10028,"date":"2023-06-26T10:55:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T14:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/student-lounge\/?p=10028"},"modified":"2023-06-26T10:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T14:56:28","slug":"cracking-the-code-unique-insights-from-best-robotics-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/student-lounge\/2023\/06\/26\/cracking-the-code-unique-insights-from-best-robotics-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracking the Code: Unique Insights from BEST Robotics Finalists!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For this week\u2019s blog post, we invited a BEST Robotics<\/span><\/a> team to share their journey to becoming a finalist in the 2022 Souths BEST Championship. For the 2022 season, BEST Robotics focused on a global world challenge \u2013 improving supply chain! Made2Order<\/span><\/a> was based on the packaging industry and the problems and dangers of human employees fulfilling orders manually. As always if you would like to use MATLAB and Simulink for your robots, please visit our BEST Robotics page <\/span><\/a>or contact us at roboticsarena@mathworks.com<\/span><\/a>. MathWorks is immensely proud of their achievements, and we hope you also find their insights useful! With that, I will hand it over to Allie Maples and Natalie Rische from MACH Robotics.<\/div>\n
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Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n
BEST Robotics promotes the interest of students in engineering, science and technology and inspires them to pursue careers in these fields. Our team has been participating in BEST robotics for fourteen years. Our team is composed entirely of homeschooled 6-12th grade students. MACH is a student lead organization; all the leadership roles are voted on by students and previous leaders help in the process of assigning other members to departments.<\/div>\n
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MACH Robotics Team<\/div>\n
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Our Robot: Sting<\/span><\/h2>\n
Our robot\u2019s formal name is Autobee, but our engineers lovingly nicknamed it \u201cSting\u201d. Autobee was the company theme we established to create autonomous technology in keeping with BEST\u2019s 2022 challenge Made2Order. Our task was to build a robot that would control a field robot, named Squeaky, and control Squeaky to fulfill orders.<\/div>\n
We will quickly break down some of the most innovative components of our robot.<\/div>\n