[FTC]: 4-Puck Rack Autnomous?
 

In FLL, teams commonly attempt to get a perfect score. However, in FTC (this year at aleast) it seems much harder - even impossible - to do this, since you would have to score all your pucks in autonomous mode and then get off the field.

So I was wondering... does anyone think it's possible to score all four puck racks in the triangle goal in autonomous mode? Or even in any goal?

Interested in your thoughts,

-Jonathan

Re: [FTC]: 4-Puck Rack Autnomous?
 

It's not possible.

Even if you factor out the whole "other robots are moving" and the probability that something might go wrong.

There simply isn't enough time to travel the distance required and score in the middle.

I shouldn't say it's not possible, but IMO, it's not possible.

Re: [FTC]: 4-Puck Rack Autnomous?
 

Click...

:D

-Jonathan

Re: [FTC]: 4-Puck Rack Autnomous?
 

Ok. So when you meant four pucks rack autonomous, you meant no other robots on the field.

Autonomous was impressive, no doubt, but I think it'd be rather hard to implement that in a match, even if all of the robots were not moving, you'd still run into trouble. :D.

Re: [FTC]: 4-Puck Rack Autnomous?
 

Yeah I don't think this would be very practical in a competition (although you'd only need one robot to stay on the ramp and the other robot to go to the middle goal fast enough)... I'm only talking possibilities. That's why I only made this after the season ended.

-Jonathan

Re: [FTC]: 4-Puck Rack Autnomous?
 

You missed one! :P

All joking aside, this is impressive. Is there anybody out there who can improve upon that autonomous run (solo or otherwise)?

Re: [FTC]: 4-Puck Rack Autnomous?
 

This one is pretty impressive.

Re: [FTC]: 4-Puck Rack Autnomous?
 

BTW, the robot did get 4 puck racks' worth of pucks (32) in the Triangle Goal in that video. Then it got another puck in the circle and another puck balanced on top of the Triangle. There were two extra pucks because of the preload.

-Jonathan

Re: [FTC]: 4-Puck Rack Autnomous?
 

Could you make spike dump all the opposing racks out too?

Other than that I don't see any way to improve on that run,

PS how long is that run???

Re: [FTC]: 4-Puck Rack Autnomous?
 

Lol... I'm sure it could dump at least some of them out, but I don't know how it could dump out all of them.

As you can time in the video, the robot completes all it's movements within 30 seconds. The pucks continue to fall out of the robot after the 30 seconds (hey, might as well cut it close!:p ), but they would still count because the round doesn't end until all field elements stop moving.

-Jonathan