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Re: 2052 the fastest FCS?

2052's robot was very impressive this year. It was very exciting playing with and against them. At Lake Superior, 10,000 Lakes and The Minnesota State Tournament we really enjoyed watching you play, even though at each event we lost to you! By far one of my favorite robots this year and my favorite robot in Minnesota this year. Great job on a fantastic season :)

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Anybody have video of the mecanum in action? (How'd you do that whole wide open field/invisible to defenders thing in the music video, anyway?) The shooting is rockin' awesome.

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Originally Posted by Siri (Post 1276999)

Anybody have video of the mecanum in action? (How'd you do that whole wide open field/invisible to defenders thing in the music video, anyway?) The shooting is rockin' awesome.

Thanks Everyone!

We have a lot of footage to go through and maybe we'll make a video that just shows off our mecanum drive. There were definitely times when we pushed robots across the field sideways which doesn't happen often with mecanum. :yikes: If you go back to around the 2:05 mark in the video you can see 2 of our cycles where we had defense on us and we use our mecanum.

The way we were "invisible" to defenders is that we basically made them have to choose how to play defense on us. If they came close to block our shots we could go around/under the pyramid and were able to get 7 cycles off doing this. If they tried to slow us down with midfield defense we'd unload 20 disks from the feeder station in around 12 seconds by the time they came over to block. Then we'd switch back to cycling. It was also largely strategy on when we would bring out the FCS. Since we were short we knew we needed to be opportunistic. We knew we had that capability but only showed it once in qualifications on a match we felt we had to in order to win. All other matches we won by 60-100 points so there was no need to remind anyone we were a FCS too :cool:

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Originally Posted by pntbll1313 (Post 1277003)

We have a lot of footage to go through and maybe we'll make a video that just shows off our mecanum drive. There were definitely times when we pushed robots across the field sideways which doesn't happen often with mecanum. :yikes: If you go back to around the 2:05 mark in the video you can see 2 of our cycles where we had defense on us and we use our mecanum.

The way we were "invisible" to defenders is that we basically made them have to choose how to play defense on us. If they came close to block our shots we could go around/under the pyramid and were able to get 7 cycles off doing this. If they tried to slow us down with midfield defense we'd unload 20 disks from the feeder station in around 12 seconds by the time they came over to block. Then we'd switch back to cycling. It was also largely strategy on when we would bring out the FCS. Since we were short we knew we needed to be opportunistic. We knew we had that capability but only showed it once in qualifications on a match we felt we had to in order to win. All other matches we won by 60-100 points so there was no need to remind anyone we were a FCS too :cool:

Wow, that'd be great. Cool! :) I bet footage of defenders covering the feeder station corridor would highlight some sweet counter-moves, then.

Opportunistic FCS's are perhaps one of the coolest things to come to FIRST in some years. The speed with which you guys acquire such accuracy is phenomenal.

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Originally Posted by Siri (Post 1277098)

I bet footage of defenders covering the feeder station corridor would highlight some sweet counter-moves, then.

We just posted a video about our mecanum :) Hopefully you like some of our counter-moves. We made it a separate thread as this one was more to see if anyone was faster than our shooter.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...hreadid=117085

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Originally Posted by pntbll1313 (Post 1276647)

Team 2052 KnightKrawler just wrapped up the best season in our teams 7 year history by going undefeated in the Minnesota State High School League Robotics Competition and winning it. We tweaked our shooter in the 8 hours we were allowed to work on it and were able to get our Full Court Shooter running to its fullest potential.

Our FCS was able to shoot disks every .6 seconds at over 80% accuracy. Can anyone beat that?

Here’s a video showing one of our matches. We’re in red bumpers on the right and take make 2 cycles then begin to fire. There is a small amount of editing which makes the timing hard to see at the beginning but the bulk of the FCS is in real time. (Oh and with our improved faster shooting we were also able to make 7 cycles and hang in 1 match making 27/28 disks)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vlC3EqF_rc&t=2m54s

Were you generally able to go the entire match without running out of discs in the feeder station?

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Originally Posted by pntbll1313 (Post 1276647)

Our FCS was able to shoot disks every .6 seconds at over 80% accuracy. Can anyone beat that?

Here’s a video showing one of our matches. We’re in red bumpers on the right and take make 2 cycles then begin to fire. There is a small amount of editing which makes the timing hard to see at the beginning but the bulk of the FCS is in real time. (Oh and with our improved faster shooting we were also able to make 7 cycles and hang in 1 match making 27/28 disks)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vlC3EqF_rc&t=2m54s

How did we go from fastest FCS at 1 disk every .6 seconds to mecanum wheels?

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Originally Posted by itsjustmrb (Post 1277519)

How did we go from fastest FCS at 1 disk every .6 seconds to mecanum wheels?

You know CD, any chance people get to open up the mecanum can of worms haha. That's why I linked to our other thread to keep on topic.

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Originally Posted by karomata (Post 1277515)

Were you generally able to go the entire match without running out of discs in the feeder station?

In general we were a cycling robot. In matches where we did shoot full court we definitely ran out of disks. We got fast enough to hit 7 cycles which used the majority of disks and still left some for our alliance partners. If we shot full court we would empty the feeder station pretty quickly and have all 3 robots playing defense for the last minute of the match, which can slow down even the best alliances.