H.O.T. - 5 Ball Auton
 

Latest test of auton at the Northville District.

http://youtu.be/3WcMOtZ-pyw

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That is inspirational. Very nice job. Our team was planning on doing this from our original strategy sessions, but we never implemented it.

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Is anyone working on an alliance bridge 4-ball? I have a feeling we may be seeing bots doing those at Champs.

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Awesome job!

Here is Team 341's 5 ball auton from the Boston Regional.
http://youtu.be/0GjQJEUgPIA?t=1m55s

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This is the exact thing we are trying to do :) Hopefully we can get it perfect!

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Jared, that was really impressive! I haven't seen any other videos of your robot on the field, I would love you see them if you have any.

We would gladly go to the alliance bridge in Hybrid if we got a chance to play with you guys at Champs. :yikes:

Jay - Get on that! ;)

Re: H.O.T. - 5 Ball Auton
 

That would be a treat, a 60 point autonomous.

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Of course the video I post is the one where we don't score in teleop due to a key falling out of our tower motor :)

Some other videos of our robot from Boston are here, but it requires some judicious fast forwarding.

Re: H.O.T. - 5 Ball Auton
 

Our strategy was to do this but it was difficult to intake two from the bridge every time because they were not always put in the center of the bridge.

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Jared if I may, I'm pretty fond of this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hYn...eature=channel

Might be because of the battle for the center bridge in auton, or because you guys were nailing shots left and right...

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To the two teams that have shown the 5 ball auton-
What have you been doing to make sure the balls are placed on the bridge in a position in which they can be picked up?
At our regional, as well as webcasts, I have seen that the field reset teams likes to put the balls on the bridge in funny patterns and not very uniformly at all.
If you ask nicely, do they line them up for you?

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They should.

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We have an auto mode that races to the bridge first to knock down balls first, then go back and shoot from right above the key using auto aim.
While it may not be as impressive as a 5 shot auto mode, and many will be able to do this, ........it might be the only alternative from preventing an opposing alliance like this kill you before teleop starts.

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WOW! Very impressive! With much time to spare.

Are you guys auto aiming your last 3 shots or just driving super straight?

Adam: Looks like they are setting up at the top of the key... ;)

Re: H.O.T. - 5 Ball Auton
 

Basically every placement of 2 balls on a bridge I have seen leaves the absolute center spot of the grid open (for symmetry I guess). By the Q&A rulings Joe posted, that spot should be filled first and the 4 adjacent spots filled next. I was expecting this as part of autonomous strategy going into week 1 but it seems no event (I have seen) is really following it.