Chief Delphi - Ultimate Robot by year

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Originally Posted by MICHAELABICK (Post 1276804)

There was one mechanism that you couldn't see on 1717 that they had to cross the barrier. They had a deployable parabolical rail that helped them get over the bump super smoothly. I think what Cory is saying is that even if these robots were possible(which is still very hard to do given the game rules), it would have been illogical to design a robot that could do EVERYTHING in this game because it would have detracted from the rest of the robot. The amount of work to tune, practice, prototype, and design a fast 30pt climb, dump, FCS, cycler, and intake is insane. Even if you had the time to build all those mechanisms in the 54" cylinder, 112" perimter, and weight limit, you would have 100 units of robot performing at 50% instead of 75 units of robot performing at 100%.

That parabolic rail probably also took up almost no space, especially since that space wouldn't be used for anything else if you didn't have it anyways. I'm not sure what they could have possibly added to improve their robot that would be mounted the underside of their drivetrain.

The only dilemma that I see preventing a "prefect" robot from happening is that a corner climber + dump is not compatible with the best ground pick ups, and an internal face climb that is compatible with the best ground pick ups doesn't allow for a dump at the top, if you could figure out a way around either of these problems you could do it.

It seems like the only practical approach to this would be either 67's or 1114's climber base with 33's ground pick up/shooter-turret on top and an added feeder station attachment that would allow for FCSing.