Poll: Picking up tubes
 

Re: Poll: Picking up tubes
 

Is there a "not yet" option? hahaha

Re: Poll: Picking up tubes
 

Not yet =D
~Tyler Shulaw!

Re: Poll: Picking up tubes
 

Our plan is actually to pick them up from the floor because at least for us, it is faster than going back to the Feeder. We can do both though.

Re: Poll: Picking up tubes
 

are you planning on throwing the tubes over the wall or through the feeder?
~GusGus
Team 135
The Black Knights

Re: Poll: Picking up tubes
 

It is in our claw design and we just have to make it work ;) so not yet.

Re: Poll: Picking up tubes
 

Our hope is that we can throw the circle and square almost 100% of the time down into the saftey zone, which we shouldn't have to leave, and we can just pick them up and hang them. We can't manage to throw the triangle as well, so we go to the Feeder to grab it.

Re: Poll: Picking up tubes
 

Or get a teammate to ferry them for you!

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Exactly what we are thinking!

Re: Poll: Picking up tubes
 

We can consistently pick up tubes off the floor. If it's within reach of our grabber we can pick a tube off the floor and retract our arm within 3/4 of a second(.75).

Once retracted, the arm and tube are complete inside our machines frame keeping it safe and secure from being knocked off, or our arm damaged inadvertently by other robots.

Now if we can only score that quick and easy. LOL! (it's a work in progress)

Re: Poll: Picking up tubes
 

We pick up tubes extremely well, If we did it any better we would crush the tubes lol.

Re: Poll: Picking up tubes
 

Our gripper literally just sucks the tube up and holds it in a consistent position no matter how much it is hit. It uses a limit switch to make sure we did not suck the tubes in too far.
For us its pretty nice in that there is no real aiming/postitioning (other than driving towards it of course) required to grab the pieces, literally we just move towards it and it suck it up, it doesn't even push it forward if we hit it. Which compared to our previous robots is a really nice feature.

Re: Poll: Picking up tubes
 

Wow, I'm really surprised at the poll results. I think floor loading is great, but I guess the risks of defense (tube blocking), mechanism complexity, and putting a delicate mechanism out in the bumper zone didn't bother anyone.... Plus a human load will be placed specifically vs. grabbing a tube from the field under duress. I figured maybe 60-70%, but it looks like over 90% went with floor loading... :confused:

Re: Poll: Picking up tubes
 

Not being able to pick up from the floor will be a crippling disability in this game.

Re: Poll: Picking up tubes
 

why's that?