Re: Collecting 10 Pt. Balls?
 

#1 It is no longer called the autonomous mode, The name is the "hypnotic mode". Just observe the behavior of the zombie bots as they optically weave their way into the walls or each other.

#2 Time and effort to gather 10 pt balls is not worth the effort if you can corral and deliver the 5 pt balls. 10 point balls are the ball chutes from the past years. Nobody bothers.

#3 Balls beat hanging. Do the math.

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You are correct, if you look at the range of the frying pan grippers they can grab either the small or large ball. We have not perfected autonomy to the point where we attempt to grab the 10pt - we just knock it off. And as has been said, it is not worth it to do it in driver mode.

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You guys did collect balls well, not as well as 33, the killer bees, but still very well. As for the 10pt balls, they are worth it if you fill up the goal. During the practice matches when humans were feeding the HPs at Chesepeake i saw goals get so overfilled that balls would tumble out every time people shot at them. So if you can get 1 or 2 10pt. balls in there i really increases your score, especially if you can cap. They can be the deciding factor in a game. Lots of games this year have come down to a 5 or 10 point differance, so the 10 pt. balls can push you over the edge. Its not worth dedicating to much time to, especially not in driver mode, but if you can get them during autonomous mode, you can raise your chances of getting picked for an alliance or winning your match, that is if you control the ball after it is on tghe field, you dont want a team like 1083 grabbing it from you...

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if you're having trouble figuring out what to do with the rest of autonomous, we had a program last year featuring us knocking bins off the ramp, then "clapping" with our hand...it looked great when the turn got messed up, and a human player had placed a bin right next to the polycarb wall...so our robot smashed and broke the bin, then applauded itself.


i'd like to see some autonomous programs designed purely for entertainment value.

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Haha that's great........

I will agree with the autonomus statement though....a lot of them just wandered out into the field until they hit something....and having a sucessfull autonomus turned out to be rare. But hey..you've got to give those with autonomus modes more credit for actually trying.

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During the richmond practice matches, when auto was totally messed, we spun in a circle once, vaguely resembling a dance. Due to auto troubles we couldnt show off our amazing waypoint program in which we did program a dance code... heeheehee

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At our lab last night (we were very tired) we extended our arm and spun in place, and the high, extended cg picked the robot up, so it was sitting on 2 of its 6 wheels. We then spun around a whole lot, kept it going for quite a while until Jay went a little too fast and we finally came over. We were break dancing at about a 70 degree angle =D.

If we could get out into a clear space we could probably do it in auto, if we really wanted to try.