The Pipeline Challenge - Overview

Left Side

Box Prop (Drop Pipe

Challenge located
underneath)

Gap Challenge

Slide Challenge

Ball Roll
Challenge

The Pipeline Challenge - Overview

Right Side
Slide Challenge

Cube
Challenge

Drop Pipe Challenge

Flip Challenge

Ball Roll
Challenge

The Slide Challenge

8 4Dia. pipe
Slip Tee

2 Nipple

33.25
21

4.5

4.5
2
1.25

Screw to
stop
Left side
only

40
33
Same as Nationals

The Gap Challenge

4 L x W Slot

4 Diameter
Sewer Drain
pipe section
4 L x 2 - 5/16
W Opening
3-
8.5

The Flip Challenge

1
4-1/2
1.25
7

Slip Tee

9 - 1/2

3 3/4

The Drop Pipe Challenge

10.5

7-3/4 W
20

2-7/8
Interior
gap

Tie Wraps
~4 Height

The Ball Roll Challenge

Left Side

4-1/2
Diameter

Right Side

3-1/4
Diameter

The Cube Challenge

5 Same
as
Nationals

1.5 Same as Nationals

(note: as shown - not
fully compressed)

Mission Prop Building Suggestions for Testing

The whole mission scenario does not have to be built, only the individual challenges.
Use the engineering principle of breaking down the problem into its lowest elements
to determine what actually needs to be built.
For Example:

The Ball Release Challenges only needs a flat plate prop with a hole in it. If your Seaperch
operator can maneuver the robot to insert a probe into the hole, they will be able to release
the ball.
Ten foot - 4 inch diameter Schedule 40 PVC pipe split in half is used in the mission (~$16
ea.). Your props only need about one 3-foot section split in half to simulate the mission.
The support stand we use is inch PVC pipe.
The gap mission does not need the interior split pipe section or the gap. All that is needed
is the two slots and the inch PVC pipe underneath and is able to slide along the slots.
Slip tees for the Slide and Flip Challenges can be made by grinding out the interior of a
standard inch PVC tee using a grinding bit on a drill.
The Flip Challenge does not have to be built exactly as shown. A slip tee, pipe nipple, and 4
inch diameter PVC pipe section can just be installed on a straight inch diameter pipe. If
the robot operator can pick it up from the hanging position and have it flip over the pipe,
then the operator is done with this challenge.
Building the cage is unnecessary. All that will be needed is to practice picking up the cube or
sliding it out from under the cage within 30 seconds after the ball is released. The cube is
about 14 feet from the ball release prop.
Building the box is unnecessary. All that is needed is the drop pipe prop and practice picking
it up from the pool floor and dropping it into position.