FRC 6908 Infuzed | Sujjay Karthikeyan

The Program.

FIRST Robotics Competition gives student teams six weeks to design, build, and program a competition robot from scratch — then run it against 30+ other teams on a field. Every season changes the game. Every match has real consequences. The 2026 season is the team's final competition, making it a capstone of four years of continuous development.

Drivetrain

Swerve Drive

Framework

WPILib

Motor Control

CTRE Phoenix 6

Dashboard

Elastic

Language

Java

Role

Programmer + Drive Coach

2026 Robot Systems.

Swerve Drive Subsystem Full swerve kinematics implementation over CTRE Phoenix 6 motor controllers. Each module maintains independent azimuth and drive targets, with odometry fused from CANcoder absolute encoder readings for accurate field-relative positioning.

Field2d Pose Visualization Live robot pose rendered in Elastic dashboard using WPILib's Field2d widget. Drivers see real-time position and heading overlaid on the field map — critical for autonomous path validation and match strategy.

CANcoder & CAN Bus Diagnostics CAN bus health monitoring surfaced directly to the dashboard. CANcoder fault logging catches absolute encoder misconfiguration before it becomes a match-ending event — especially important on swerve where one bad module ruins drive capability.

Drive Coach Role Beyond code: serving as drive coach means translating field state into real-time strategy calls during matches. Prepared 2026 game-specific quiz material for the team to internalize scoring rules and alliance coordination patterns.

Driver Station View.

CANcoder     → Absolute Module Angle (±0.01°)
Odometry     → Field-Relative X, Y, Theta
Field2d      → Elastic Dashboard Pose Widget
CAN Health → Fault flags surfaced to driver HUD
Drive Coach → Strategy overlay + real-time calls

On the Field.

The robot, the pit, and the team in competition.

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01. 2026 Swerve-Drive Competition Robot

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02. Match Play — Drive Coaching

FRC Lineage.

The 2026 season builds on roots that go back to 2018 — the team's first year. That earlier work included AprilTag-based autonomous alignment, field-relative pose estimation, and PID-controlled shooter targeting. The 2026 robot formalizes that experience into a full swerve platform with production-grade telemetry.

Capstone.

2026 is the final season for Team 6908 Infuzed. Four years of iterating on the same program — from fabricating a 120lb shooter robot to coaching autonomous swerve strategy — is a complete arc.

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