
Hayley So developed and enhanced the elevator subsystem for the Reefscape2025 repository over a three-month period, focusing on simulation fidelity, operator safety, and maintainability. She implemented motor control and feedforward logic in Java, integrating Phoenix 6 for hardware simulation and telemetry. Her work included robust setpoint architecture, joystick teleoperation, and safety features such as software limit switches and current monitoring. Hayley centralized configuration for acceleration and refactored command logic to improve reliability and reduce unsafe operations. Through detailed documentation and simulation visualization, she enabled early validation of control logic, streamlined testing, and established a foundation for future robotics development.
Monthly summary for 2025-03 — Reefscape2025 (FRC7902). Focused on safety enhancements and configurability for elevator operations. Key deliverables include coral-height safety gating with AutoSetElevatorCoralPositionCommand and a refactor of SetElevatorPositionCommand; centralized acceleration configuration to improve configurability and consistency. These changes reduce risk of unsafe moves, improve repeatability, and lay groundwork for further safety features.
Monthly summary for 2025-03 — Reefscape2025 (FRC7902). Focused on safety enhancements and configurability for elevator operations. Key deliverables include coral-height safety gating with AutoSetElevatorCoralPositionCommand and a refactor of SetElevatorPositionCommand; centralized acceleration configuration to improve configurability and consistency. These changes reduce risk of unsafe moves, improve repeatability, and lay groundwork for further safety features.
February 2025 monthly summary for FRC7902/Reefscape2025: Focused on elevating the elevator subsystem through simulation enhancement, reliable setpoint control, and safety/telemetry improvements. Delivered end-to-end elevator functionality with Phoenix 6 integration, joystick teleop, and enhanced telemetry; established predefined setpoints with homing and robust operator bindings; introduced safety features (limit switches, current limits), audio cues, and comprehensive documentation. These efforts reduced testing time, increased simulation fidelity, and improved operator confidence and maintainability, enabling safer, more predictable robot performance in competition and demos.
February 2025 monthly summary for FRC7902/Reefscape2025: Focused on elevating the elevator subsystem through simulation enhancement, reliable setpoint control, and safety/telemetry improvements. Delivered end-to-end elevator functionality with Phoenix 6 integration, joystick teleop, and enhanced telemetry; established predefined setpoints with homing and robust operator bindings; introduced safety features (limit switches, current limits), audio cues, and comprehensive documentation. These efforts reduced testing time, increased simulation fidelity, and improved operator confidence and maintainability, enabling safer, more predictable robot performance in competition and demos.
January 2025 – Reefscape2025 (FRC7902): Key feature delivered is the ElevatorSubsystem with integrated simulation visualization. The ElevatorSubsystem includes motor controller configurations, encoder settings, simulation parameters, and a feedforward controller, with 2D elevator visualization in the simulator. Commit: 2e07bb42a032b6527ed6bb0468d5fef455e67d35 (Added constants and code to subsystem). No major bugs fixed this month; primary focus was implementing and validating the new subsystem within the simulation environment. Impact: enables early validation of elevator control logic, improves testing fidelity, reduces hardware-in-the-loop risk, and accelerates iteration. Technologies/skills demonstrated: robotics control patterns (subsystems, motor controllers, encoders), feedforward control, simulation visualization, constants/code organization, and version control discipline.
January 2025 – Reefscape2025 (FRC7902): Key feature delivered is the ElevatorSubsystem with integrated simulation visualization. The ElevatorSubsystem includes motor controller configurations, encoder settings, simulation parameters, and a feedforward controller, with 2D elevator visualization in the simulator. Commit: 2e07bb42a032b6527ed6bb0468d5fef455e67d35 (Added constants and code to subsystem). No major bugs fixed this month; primary focus was implementing and validating the new subsystem within the simulation environment. Impact: enables early validation of elevator control logic, improves testing fidelity, reduces hardware-in-the-loop risk, and accelerates iteration. Technologies/skills demonstrated: robotics control patterns (subsystems, motor controllers, encoders), feedforward control, simulation visualization, constants/code organization, and version control discipline.

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