Andy Baker
President and Co-owner, AndyMark, Inc.
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BSME, University of Evansville
1992-2007, Delphi Corporation
1998-today, FRC Mentor (teams 45, 3940)
2003, Championship WFA
2004, co-founded AndyMark, Inc.
Co-founder:
 IRI, Indiana FIRST, Championship Conferences, WFA
committee
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FRC event volunteer (inspector, referee, etc.)
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Highlight designs that changed FRC
Give credit to teams who created nowcommonplace FRC designs
Recognize the best robots build in FRC
Point out some dramatic design failures
Don’t choose more than one robot from one
team
10: Team 461, 2002
9: Team 234, 2015
8: Team 829, 2007
7: Team 1501, 2010
6: Team 3940, 2012
5: Team 135, 2014
4: Team 868, 2004
3: Team 1024, 2008
2: Team 45, 1999
1: Team 71, 2001
Best Designs
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World Champs
No floor feed
Special 6wd Drive Train
 All wheels on same plane
 Special grooves cut in
wheels
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Automode win = match
win
Also: 2000, 2003
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World Champions
Excellent multi-stage
telescoping lift system
Excellent mini-bot
design and
depoloyment
Highlight video
Simple, clean, elegant
Also: 2014, 2002, 2009
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Could lift and spin
two goals, weighing
180 pounds each
Introduced wedgetop
tread to FIRST
Powdercoat
everything
First team to focus on
neat packaging
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Mecanum Wheels,
what?
Omni-directional
Airtrax Forklift
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World Champions
Single Actuation
Arm
Wedge Sides
Easy to Control
KISS vs. Complex
Match Video
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Shifting transmission, led to
creation of AndyMark, Inc.
Metal track drive (eventually
deemed illegal)
Bullied other teams with arm,
dominating the puck
Only matches lost were
matches when something
broke
World Finalists
Also: 1998, 1992, 2004
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Dominated top bar,
covering and traversing
Could score 2x ball
while hanging
Telescoping arm
CVT drive train
Match video
Also: 2008, 2007
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On display at FIRST
headquarters in
Manchester
Polished Robot
Perfect score in almost
every round
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Smooth Swerve
Vision Tracking Shooter
Accurate Shooter
Efficient Floor Pickup
Effective Balancer
30 Point End Game
Highlight Reel
Also: 2009
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Simple design
Student build, from
necessity
De-score opponent’s
black ball
Took out team 47’s best
robot
Match video 47+312 vs.
126+131
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Re-defined ball pickup
Tube roller, with much
power
Optimized traction on
ball
Sacrificed drivetrain
power
Here’s a video
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Teams start calling
extension arms “Pink
Team Extension Arms”
Single-actuated, multistage cascading tubular
arm
CNC milled patterns
Strong shoulder joint
Roller claw
Many years of use
Also: 2005, 2011
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Planetary CVT
(continuously variable
transmission)
Design published during
following summer
Replicated by other
teams (and those teams
even received awards!)
Also: 2006, 2007, 2008
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Redline Robot
1 main power source
Many, many chains
Swerve drive on
steroids
Inspiration for
commercial swerve
modules
Also: 2003, 2012
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Efficient design w/ pickup & balance arm
Best shooter in FRC, auto/vision
Alleged victim of sabotage
Also: 2005, 2009, 2000, 2004
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Stangsense
Dominant Automode
Waypoint teaching for
automode positioning
King of the hill, with
wing-ramps
Swerve drive
Match Play
Also: 1997, 2009, 2011
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Dominant automode
Clean ball pickup and
punching launcher
Low Cg, low profile
Fast, two speed drive
Match Play
Also: 2004, 2007, 2012,
2014
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Broke the game with ball
guiding mechanism
Excellent mid-field
kicker/scorer
Locked itself into tower
Redirected balls into goals
Surprisingly lost finals of
Einstein
Match Video
Also: 2003, 2014, 2009
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Flip over drive base
No steering needed
File card walking beams
3 goal grabbers
Locked the game if
goals were grabbed
Match Play
Also: 1997, 2002, 2004
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Elegant, welded tubular design
Amazingly large ball collector
with actuated rollers
2 wheel swerve drive (w/ 2
casters)
Aluminum bumper
Did amazing things with very
limiting robot rules
Match video
Also: 1997, 2000, 2001
Questions?