VEX Robotics Competition
Competition robot designed, built, and programmed for VEX Robotics, part of a national championship college season.
Robotics · VEX U, SUNY Oswego · Design, build, and programming
VEX is a competitive robotics league where teams design, build, and program a robot to play a brand new game each season, scoring points in a short autonomous period and a driver-controlled period against alliances of other teams.
Our robot was built around a custom metal chassis with an omni-wheel drivetrain for fast, agile positioning, paired with a multi-jointed arm and claw intake for picking game pieces off the field and placing them into scoring zones.
Each season ran like an engineering sprint: design in CAD, build, break, and rebuild, program autonomous routines, and log hours of driver practice, with scrimmages and tournaments stress-testing every decision along the way.
Competing in college at SUNY Oswego, our team earned a national championship and won the Innovate Award at nationals, recognizing a uniquely clever design element. The work also contributed to a New York State innovation grant.
VEX is where I first learned to design for the physical world: parts that have to survive real matches, real loads, and real deadlines. That mindset carried directly into building Suzanne.
Features
- Custom metal chassis with omni-wheel drivetrain
- Multi-jointed arm with claw intake for game pieces
- Programmed autonomous scoring routines
- Tournament-tuned driver control
- Season-long design, build, and rebuild iteration cycles
- Match strategy and alliance play
Built with VEX V5, Mechanical design, CAD, Autonomous programming, Match strategy.