Who's robot does everything?
 

I'm just really wondering because our robt does everything and I know we're not the only ones, and I know some team haves just launching or just dumping, some of them I think are looking pretty cool.

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Our robot can corral balls and has a shooter for the center goal. That basically means we have the potential to score in both goals. We can go up the center ramp, and play defense. Is that everything?

Better though, to be awesome at ONE thing, than mediocre at everything...

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Ours has all 5. We are still working on it, however, we can
1. dump balls in corner goal. Up to 20 if necessary.
2. load via a human player via a hopper
3. shoot balls in the center goal.
4. play defense
5. climb the middle ramp.
Our robot is only 3 feet high so getting on is not as difficult as some of the other robots I have seen that are like elevators. Our robot moves very quickly since it looks like a boxy bulldozer.

The only problem we anticipate is high shooters shooting over us. But, trying to shoot with a defender actively trying to stop you may be difficult for some.

See the picture gallery for team 359 robot.

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Define everything.

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We have the ability as well to do pretty much everything, how well will be determined based on how the tweaking goes after the trial run at the winter warzone scrimmage. Also working on a way for the robot to make breakfast after the all niters as well, but thats not going so well

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Well anyone can do "everything" in the shop. The question is can you do "everything" on the field with other robots smashing into you with balls that aren't going to go where yu want when you want with a limited amount of time to do "everything".
If anyione can answer yes to that you are a bot to be dealt with.

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sorry I was too broad, can your robot shoot balls, pick up balls, recieve from humun element, store balls, and dump balls.

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what about autonomous mode?

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Well, our robot has a shooter for shooting balls into the center goal. Our robot has a spiral for holding up to 25 balls. Our robot has tank tread so we won't slip when we go up the ramp. Our robot has an aquisitor, modeled off of one from 2000 with the soccer balls, to suck up, and shoot back out balls. Our robot has some shock absorber at the top to cushion balls coming in from human loader. Our robot has bumpers. DOn't know about autonomous.
Our status however is that of running, not necessarily working.
Today we shot in seven balls without missing once from about 15 feet, so nothing is optimized. Plus the grass on top doesn't really work, if anything it makes the balls more bouncy, but theres always tomorrow. and the Thursday of the our first regional.

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Our robot can do basically everything, dump in autonomous, fire high in autonomous (untested), shoot high, shoot low, gather, and get up the ramp (we need a little push, but it doesn't take much to get over. We incorporated the camera and gyro, and have a holonomic drivetrain. :-)

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If I understand your version of everything, the tasks listed above in the third post, correctly then yes we do everything. Whats more we use only four motors to do everything. :) However as stated above, normally it's the ones who do specialized tasks extremely well who dominate but I'm not sure if that is the case this year.

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In theory, ours can do everything.

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With a few more lines of code (I'd say less than 70), our robot will do everything (the only thing we can't do at the moment is dump balls into corner goals, and that is purely because of software).

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We can shoot and pick up balls from the ground. That's it, plain and simple. We cut the ball dump mechanism from the original design because we are no longer using pneumatics and really couldn't afford the extra weight, and we never included a way for human players to load balls in our robot because we believe it would be ineffective for our team (we have never used humans to directly place scoring objects on a robot, we've always had the robot pick them up). We were hoping the robot would climb the ramp from simply existing, it didn't, so we decided we'll just not bother with it.

We just hope we shoot well.

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Ya sure it can do all. On the field...well we never really tried...or had it running long enough, or even had a field for that matter.We are quite space constrained...may have to bribe the gym teachers with some chili....

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Srry,
Our robot only picks can pick up balls from the floor and from human players. we preffer the floor. We can only dump on the side goals though. We have working autonomous modes. We are also a very good defensive robot. We attended a pre-shipping event @ SWAMP's and we did all we thought we could do.

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Ours should be able to shoot for both the high and low goals and get up on the center ramp.

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I heard about a team that had one that can do everything:

It can score in the center goal, if it's partner lifts it up 2 feet (it can't quite shoot that high).

It can score in the low goals, but the balls don't quite go in. So it dumps them on the floor, then it's partner pushes them in for them.

It climbs the ramp, but yeah... the ramp is steep; so it needs a boost from it's partner.

It picks up off the ground, but not very well if the balls are moving, so it works best if it's partner can shove them into it's mouth.

It can accept balls from the human player, but they bounce out a lot, so typically it would have the human players bounce them off it's partner, and into it's mouth.

None of this has been tested, and the robot isn't really driving yet... but there is still time.

Truly an incredible machine. The exact definition of coopertition.
Does everything; no problem.

-JV

Re: Who's robot does everything?
 

I'm just really wondering because our robt does everything and I know we're not the only ones, and I know some team haves just launching or just dumping, some of them I think are looking pretty cool.

Really, can it make me some pasta?

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1568's bot can:
1) score in center
2) score in corner (but we don't all the time, but we could)
3) human player load, but rely on our pick up mechanism
4) go up the ramp, something i think was a problem at the UTC scrimmage and i didnt see much of it happen at quincy
5) play defense, our bot (yet to be named) is a rock

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We can do it all, and we are perfecting our aiming system, so we will be able to score 3 pts. more effectively. We aklso have a really torquey drive train.

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well team 1831 just found out, we can score one pointers faster than you can say "FIRST ROCKS MY SOCKS!!!" buuuuuuuuuuuuuut our idea for hitting the top goal is about 1-2 ft short of the lowest point. :mad: oh well we can push alot around and hustle quiet well. :D I get to be on the floor this year :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:

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Our robot can do everything but but dump balls....we can shoot, receive from human player, play defense, and climb the ramp. However, we cannot pick balls up off the floor either.

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we can shoot 9 for 10 in the center,

hold 18 balls which we collect off the floor,

we can hit the bottom and center goal,

we can go up and down the ramp,

we have multi autonimous programs

and a preaty strong drive train

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we can do everything but it needs practicing but we can do everything sothat is all that matters. right now it is more about strategy and how to actually play the game but we have the option to do everything and that is nice ;)

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At first our robot was going to pick up off the ground and do everything but then one of our bms guys said WE ARE NOT A SWISS ARMY KNIFE. Its better to do 2 things well then every thing crappy. I think our robot is pretty solid but i will stick 100% by the choice of having a beffy drivetrain then making a ball pickerupper. I am sure some team out there will do everything and will do it well. But can they take the abbuse this game has to offer.

shaun

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We can shoot into high and low goals, get onto the ramp, and we can hold about 20 balls if needed be. Autonomous almost works and we have a fine shooter.

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Our robot can do everything....there is only one problem that might occur with ours. Our ball hopper jams every once and a while if we are sitting still. We have auto and manual controls on our robot and its really acurate. We had the opertunity to see 254's robot...we will be happy to go against it and be allianced with it.

Re: Who's robot does everything?
 

Team Resistance can do EVERYTHING. . .

See this thread : http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=44614 for the video to see with your own eyes. . .

:D

-WJS

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our robot looks pretty
abotu the doing we dont know what it can do yet seeing as we havent run it

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minus players being able to shoot balls into our hopper, we can pick up balls, shoot at target goal w/ camera, unload into bottom goals, ramp, and defence

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Yes, or at least we think so. Having just two mentors and six mostly active students we did not have time to build field elements. We can launch balls at about 1 per second at the center goal, dump about 25 balls in 6 seconds into the side goals, receive balls from shooters or pick up off the floor. With 6 wheel drive we are fast and maneuverable and must tip in excess of 50 degrees to overturn. Main worries are aiming accuracy and driver practice. Exhausted, but looking forward to the competition.

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Our robot focuses on doing one thing really well, and that's shooting center goals. As far as ball harvesting goes, we can accept balls easily from the floor or human player.
Keep in mind there's only so much you can do in 40 seconds.
Doing one thing, and doing it well has many advantages.
If you can shoot 3 or 1 pointers, why shoot the 1 pointers when you can score the other? I know some teams have their reasons, but for us, our robot's eye is set on center.

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We can't go up the ramp.

We can pick up the floor, shoot and score in the side goals as long as the balls don't go into the storage from the rollers.

Once they are in the storage, though, the only way out is by air.

We can't get balls from the human player, but since we can pick up balls very efficiently, we're all set as far as that goes.

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What about automatically aiming?

If all goes well (cross fingers) we'll have a joystick for driving and one - count it, one - button: FIRE

Don

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Our robot can:

1. Pick up balls off the ground (up to 4 at a time).

2. Be feed by a human player.

3. Store in a hopper ( holds all 80 if necessary).

4. Dump into a corner goal.

5. Climb the ramp very easy.

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Our robot (still working on the title) is capable of:

(1) picking up 7+ balls at once (we only have 7 balls to test with)
(2) Receiving balls through the open top
(3) estimated storage of 20-30 balls(again limited supplies)
(4) shooting into corner goals with a fast rate of fire
(5) defense
(6) climbing ramp(not well tested but functioned well during limited tests)

I believe that just about sums up the capabilities of our robot
well good luck out there to all the other competing robots :)

Re: Who's robot does everything?
 

This years robot Joshua can also do everything, however when watching the scriammage matches i realized, this is not lots of time in each match, especially because its not a free for all the entire game like past games. Do you need to do everything? Do we have time to do everything?

Re: Who's robot does everything?
 

it depends on how fast your robot is...if your robot is fast enough and your operators are skilled enough then yes some of everything can be done but perhaps you may have to do 1 thing in 1 match and something else in another who knows what the rest of your alliance may or may not be capable of doing

Re: Who's robot does everything?
 

ours dumps balls in autonomous. it can load balls off the field, shoot balls, dump balls, and i believe collect from a human player. it also kicks butt at defending and it can get up the ramp. is that everything?

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703 can do everything...and can do it very well.

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Well, Chomp can at the same time frustrate me, raise my blood pressure, get the gears in my head turning in thought (NEVER a good thing), and give me a bonk on the head.

That's doing everything, right? ;)

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1038 shoots, does auton, picks up balls, and some defense

2 teams that stand out that can do everything that haven't been mentioned
1018 can auton, dump, pick up balls, collect from human player, shoot, and defend
365, i believe, can do all that as well (ability to pick up and auton are iffy..memory lapse)
and VERY effectively, both of the teams

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We've worked with 177 and they can do everything.

And we can too. Our combined results at UTC NE with 1124 are the evidence.

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Aces High's robot once again can do everything. In contrast with our past years however we do everything well. We can shoot the 3 pointers with high accuracy and repeatability even under heavy defense. We can do perfect 1 point drops with up to 20 balls in our robot. We can get ourselves on the ramp and help in pushing up other robots onto the ramp. We can play great defense, or be an amazing backbot. We have 3 main auto modes that can block, score high, or score low. Our Drive team is very experienced and easy to work with. And as our second at BAE and first at UTC show we must be doing something right.

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Consider that seconded.

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Our robot can do everything and do it all well. Our collection system has been upgrade so it puts the balls in the hopperin a time of two seconds (up from four) and we could easly pick up tens balls in 40 seconds with the old system. When we dump into the corner goals we hit 100 percent of our balls (and most of this was in auto- mode) 8 out of 10 times. When we shoot we can fire off 7 balls in 7 seconds with great accuracy (we get 6/7 most of the time). We also have the capablity of hold 27 balls at once (but we use them too fast to reach this number). We have no trouble at all getting up on the ramp as well. From a defensive point of view we can defend low shooters because of the height of our robot and since the entire thing is covered by expanded metal there arent any holes to shoot through. We also have some pushing power to defend against high shooters. When i first got to drive the robot at competition i was really amazed at what the build team had given me to work with.

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Currently we can do everything: Human player loading, floor loading, center goal, lower goals. However, before we compete at Palmetto, we'll be removing the lower goal capability so that we can have some weight to make our robot better at everything else. Also, we haven't hit the lower goal button once in a competition.

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Our robot was able to do everything. It had automated pan and tilt system for the shooter, a conveyor, a human-loadable hopper and could reverse the conveyor to score in the corner goal. Our drive train could also bring us up on the ramp. We found it drained a lot of power and was too complicated. We have removed the tilt function since we found its not needed. It still does the rest though.

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Our robot can shoot with an angle adjust (tilt) and a turret. We also have a roller system which allows us to pick up balls from the floor and either score them in the lower goal or shoot them. We have one magazine which feeds to the shooter and the lower goal and one that feeds exclusively to the lower goal. The robot has a lower goal and a shooting auton mode and can easily get up the ramp. It also auto aims. :)

Yeah, it was working pretty well once we got to Chesapeake. (and got our driver/programmer back from standardized-testing land) The worst part was sitting at BAE watching the robot we built to do everything do nothing. Luckily it's better now. :)

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Yes.

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Yup! we sure can do everything! (and pretty well too)