2011 Curie Division
 

Discussion for Curie

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Anyone really smart that has the data to do OPR ranks wanna do them for Curie? :D

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Time to break that darn curse!!

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OPR Ranks Using Highest Event OPR
Here it is using Travis's Avg OPR data from his Fake Divisions Sheet
I can't get the latest World Rank Data from Ed Law's database since it will not convert to pre-07 Excel format. Anyone have that data?

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The_Lucas, thanks man - do you think you could do the same for Newton?

I know i cannot wait to work with the some of the best teams in FIRST.

Lets have some fun!

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Yes curie again lets do this and make this a great division, Good luck to all.

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This division looks pretty interesting. Some great teams, and some huge competition! Should be a great Championship, and division!

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What a great division!!!
see you there :)

MisCar 1574

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WOO! We're not the team with the lowest OPR here lol

Can't wait for alliance selections.

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The Skunks are looking forward to being on the field with everyone!!
Good luck to everyone and we will see you on the field(s)

Go CURIE!!!

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Curie, along with all the other divisions, is looking really strong. We can't wait to compete with everyone!

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Awesome! Curie seems to be a strong division! Lets all make it an amazing division. Can't wait to compete with you all! Good Luck everyone!

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Curie and Archimedes are relatively weak compared to Newton and Galileo

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I'm one of those people that roots for the underdog. ;)

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I love it! Weak divisions don't mean weak alliances, so true in this game too. We saw 8th seed beat 1st seed in MSC, can't wait to see what happens in St. Louis!

We may not have team IFI, but we have 71!

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Team 2996, Cougars Gone Wired, is super excited to be a part of the Curie Division!!! SEE EVERYONE THERE!!!!! :)

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I kinda like the storyline of the "under-the-radar" alliance from the "cursed Division" emerging from their dark corner of the pits (yes we are going to be in the pits for Elims Sat) to win it all on the big stage of Einstein. ;)

Seriously, I think the ultimate champion on Einstein will be decided by consistency and the seeding of the division (and therefore the relative strength of the emerging alliance). So let the "stronger" divisions beat up on each other in quals (possibly leading to "surprise #1" and alliance breakup) while the cream rises to the top in Curie. In this game, marginal scoring diminishes quickly. I think all division winning alliances will be capable of putting up 4 logos per match, they just need to do so consistently. Bottom logos past that really aren't a gamebreaker (only 6pts for whole logo, weak). The winning alliances need to consistently put up 3 Ubers in auto and avoid penalties. They also need to consistently be at the towers at the 10 sec mark to enter their 2 minibots in the race of the sub-2sec minibots. It is way too early to predict which division will come out ahead in those races... :ahh:

We need to take it one step at a time. We will not face Newton or Galileo (the aforementioned "strong divisions") till the Einstein Finals. After we crown our champion, we need focus on beating Archimedes for taking our field in the Dome (and to keep The Radioactive Archimedes' Screw Trophy :D )

Personally, consider being in the same division as the AC of my team's 2 most successful runs on the world stage a sign of good luck(Nat Champs w/ Beatty in '01, Div Finalists w/ 987 in '08). Also, we have a good mix of old friends and new faces. Plus, having 5 HOF teams in your division never hurts ;)

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Looks like 176 is the only CT team in Curie this year, odd!

Oh well, we're ready to compete, and we're bringing a few new cards to play as well! ;)

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Can't wait for St. Louis!! Seeing old friends and making new ones. Curie will more formidable than people think.....

This is from the Week 6 data:

Team World Rank
987 4
2056 6
2363 10
71 15
1678 27
1986 33
2081 35
1983 37
1717 41
368 44
365 49
573 51
67 55
1923 57
2471 61
364 65
599 70
2751 73
51 80
180 82
2826 83
1519 87
1625 88
768 93
1574 104
176 113
245 115
103 121
1559 124
1507 161
1927 163
968 195
1024 201
1626 217
2702 255
135 261
3630 265
126 278
316 293
1675 308
2177 312
122 323
335 348
3130 357
2990 363
2102 369
2996 392
20 406
3507 411
141 441
1241 443
2377 465
3473 466
3459 475
60 535
1741 557
375 580
3160 605
166 629
3239 640
1891 642
3477 663
2761 708
2040 729
3739 762
687 798
2359 808
3172 832
3553 1008
3784 1029
3766 1070
246 1119
2783 1165
2486 1205
57 1235
3158 1247
2283 1259
401 1282
1836 1588
2556 1613
1739 1723
3685 1772
3651 1873
3624 1927
120 1928
3037 1989
3492 2041

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All of Team Mean Machine is also pretty excited to be on Curie!
Especially with Skunkworks and Hotwire, our PNW friends <3

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"World Domination !!!" ;)

GO PNW!


Break the curse...

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You know that this year is the 100th anniversary of Marie Curie winning her second Nobel prize (the one in chemistry).

I think that Poland is declaring 2011 as the year of Curie.

Perhaps 2011 is also the year of curie in FIRST?

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It's been a few years since an "All Washington Teams" photo was taken at world champs. With this many teams coming, we definitely need to do it again!

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I'm really sad I won't be attending Championships this year (college is lame, don't do it).

My only hope is that we somehow make it onto an alliance for eliminations.:yikes:

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This should turn out to be a great devision. It'll be awesome to play with the High Rollers and everyone else again! Let's break that curse!

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368 will be bringing the aloha to Curie (yet again) along with our rookie friends 3685 from the across the island!

368 at Champs:

'02: Newton
'05: Curie
'08: Curie
'09: Newton
'10: Curie
'11: Curie

See you all there!

For scouts :) :
YouTube Website

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Agree!! We'll have to do some coordination work...

An eyeball check of our friends from FIRSTWA:

Archimedes
360
1899

Curie
1983
2471

Galileo
3393
3574
3588
3711

Newton
2046
2660

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OPR is not the end-all be-all for this game. Just look at MSC...if we went by OPR, the end result would have been completely different.

I am confident that many of the teams in Curie can hang/beat the top teams in the other divisions. Besides, they all have to beat each other up...before they get out of their division.

In the end the best alliance from each division will be pretty evenly matched.

67, 16, and 348 did our best to take down the Galileo giants last time we were on Curie. If you study those Einstien matches it was closer than the final scores looked.

There are a lot of strong teams in this division. I believe the alliance that gets out of Curie will be very strong. Eliminations are going to be very tough..the division winner will be have their strategy and teamwork down by the time they are done.

I remember hearing Newton was pretty weak last year and no way they would be able to beat the "un-beatable" alliance coming from Curie.

67 is ready for another challenge!

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I don't think OPR is the reason some are perceiving Curie as weaker. It shouldn't be considering this data from Travis's spreadsheet
All the divisions are pretty similar in Avg OPR except for Archi. I would say it has more to do with teams in the Top25 Week 6 Public Poll:

Galileo 5 teams
Curie 5 teams
Newton 9 teams
Archimedes 6 teams

Galileo also has only 5 teams too, but 4 of them are in the Top 10. The Top25 is a lot of fun, but champions are decided on the field not in public opinion.

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If we are going of well know and consistent powerhouse names then yes, Curie is weak. but I don't believe we are week at all who knows what could happen through the three days of competition all of the top contenders could break some how could switch up the top 24. I feel like Curie is going to be a great division this year and tell people around not to sleep on us.:D

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Team 126 is so ready for nationals! We have had some problems the last two competitions but now that those are straightened out we are ready to compete! With a consistent autonomous, 7-8 tubes per match and a 1.1 second minibot, we are ready :), let' break this dry spell Curie!

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I think that one of the things that is going to make Curie interesting is that it is not top-heavy. It has many many very solid teams. In my opinion, that will make for very interesting qualifications and eliminations... The 8th pick for eliminations may very well be as solid as the 15th pick. I think we are going to see the best matches out of all the divisions in Curie...

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I'll throw in for 57. Don't be fooled by that low OPR, that was all tubes without a functioning minibot. We're bringing a fast minibot and deployment, and have a good autonomous, so I'm liking our chances for playing on Saturday afternoon.

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Not sure how you can say that with both 67 and 71 on the field with us. Check out their stats.....particularly CMP championships and Einstein appearances...

and we have one of the very best young teams of all time...
2056....they have won every regional they have EVER played in..

(we have many other great teams too ..... and we are the only field that has a team with a book written about them....)

We are fired up to play with EVERYONE>.....
This is THE YEAR for CURIE!!!

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I disagree with this statement.

Curie has: 67 (two time defending world champion and 2011 MSC Champion), 2056 (Still undefeated record at regionals and part of current 2011 high score record holder of 150 - just filthy good), 71 (Beatty, enough said), 987 (maybe a little bias here, but we did win a WC at this similar game in 2007 and two Regionals this year), 365, 245, 573, 51, 968 and 1717 (southern CA powerhouses), ...on and on.

The teams in Curie this year have a combined 11 world championships (back to 1992), Galileo has 8, Archimedes has 7, and Newton has 6.

(Since 2001: Curie 8WC, Galileo 7WC, Arch 7WC, Newton 4WC)

Appearances on Einstien since 2001: Curie 23, Galileo 23, Newton 22, Arch 17.

Underestimated, yes. Weak, no.

I have a feeling that some of the lesser known (nationally) teams will have an impact this year, too, such as 1983, 2363, 1986, and 1678.

World Champions:
Curie: 71 (2004, 2002, 2001, 1997), 67 (2010, 2009, 2005), 987 (2007), 365 (2001), 176 (1999), and 126 (1992)
Galileo: 111 (2009, 2003), 294 (2010, 2001), 1114 (2008), 469 (2003), 173 (2002), and 48 (1999)
Arch: 177 (2010, 2007), 190 (2007), 330 (2005), 503 (2005), 435 (2004), 45 (1998)
Newton: 148 (2008, 1993), 217 (2008, 2006), 25 (2000), 494 (2004)

(Bob Steele beat me to the point....)

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Fixed: 217 won in 2008, not 27 (who is also in Newton this year).

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no bias necessary Trent...
All anyone has to do is to watch one of your matches...

2 tube auto
2 logos
Fast minibot.

What team could ask for more in an alliance partner...

see you in 10 days... hopefully on our end of the field

Bob

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Thanks, Kristian. Fat fingered that one translating from FirstWiki to Excel.

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Thanks, Bob. Looking forward to it.

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Don't Forger us - MisCar 1574

with the israeli regional 2011 Record (15-1-0)

Two uber tubes in auto
at least two logos
and pretty fast minibot with an awesome deploy!

http://miscar1574.com

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176 also won Nationals in 1999. I guess most people don't remember that far back, heh :)

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Totally not what I meant, believe me I know 71,67,2056 are powerhouses but what i'm trying to say is that if you check the hype of the other divisions they believe there are stronger powerhouses for instance 1114. The teams I listed above are incredible teams and their in my opinion a lot of other spectacular teams waiting to emerge during this tournament.I believe we have a great shot at taking it! And your right experience does play an incredible role. (I also give you two points for the 1717 reference.):] We are basically are under hyped which is a mistake in my opinion.

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No problem.... I think you hit the nail on the head....other division HYPE...
From my experience... the cream will rise to the top... I also remember our first year...2007 and how a little all maroon team that no one thought could win took it all from a division that was supposed to be the "lowest" ranking division... (Do you remember that Trent? The Maroon Wall. (987, 177, 190).

How could you forget...??? .)

By the way, we look forward to pitting with you guys... we should be right next to each other!!! 1986 and 1983!!

Good luck to you guys!! We have several teams celebrating their 5th year...
Let's put some of them on Einstein!!

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166 is excited for championships and looking forward to playing with all of you an Curie! Our bot is working better then ever it should be interesting to how it does. New for championships for us will be autonomous and minibot rev. 3.

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Team 1891 will be glad to have a first time national debute in this division.

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I apologize, my mistake. (I tried to pull those stats together too fast and missed a couple things). That makes 11 WC for Curie teams this year.

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Yea it should be very cool, stop by when i'm there.:] Im really excited to meet teams ive never met and stuff but its cool to hangout with teams Ive met in the past. New friends and old ones! (Now for scouting and speculation) I think especially after last year losing to the winner of curie and everyone expected for them to win 1114,469 but lost in finals on Einstein I believe anything can happen. Upsets are very easy in this game due to penalties, and the massive amount of ways to get a red card. so I'm not one to jump full on who's going to win just due to statistics. But I do believe statistics help for reading the playing field and knowing what to watch for ect. This probley was TL:DR but I think that this is going to be a great week of fun for curie.

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Trust me, I've seen you. I wouldn't be sleeping on you ;)

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I feel stalked lol

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Nah, you should just feel good about yourself. I've been scouting a long time... I wouldn't say things like that about anybody ;)

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Thank you very much! still emotion conveyed through text is really strange.

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Team 2996 may have gotten here on Chairman's, but we've still got a robot! At the risk (and with full knowledge) of being shamed by the robonauts epic video, I'm going to post team 2996's robot video here! Can't wait to see you in St. Louis!!!

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2996 You guys built a great robot this year,where great competition in Colorado, and well deserved chairman's. You guys will be excellent comp for curie division. Also nice video.

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You left out a World Championship for 51 in 2003 (from the 65 half of the team).

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I have to plead ignorance on this one. That is before my time in FIRST and I was relying on FirstWiki for the info.

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Is there any way that people can help the scouters and put up pictures of the robots? :D

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Here is good a pic of ours in action.

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And, for those that have thought it to be very odd that a guy from 343 is on here... I am traveling with and helping team 2751 for Championships.

2751 has a record of 24-9 on the year. This includes Finalist at the Palmetto Regional, and Champions of the North Carolina Regional.

They can hang and ubertube reliably, 2+ logos on their own, and has a fast, reliable mini-bot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyxf49AwyDk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUsvF...eature=related

Here are links to videos from their action at the North Carolina Regional.

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Robot Photo (Pre-ship) is here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/36489

YouTube channel, including our toughest qualification match in Colorado (Q#35) where we hung 1 in auto, hung 5 additional pieces on the top row and had a first place minibot. http://www.youtube.com/user/TeamTita...11/2JvmLInOQBk

Wednesday night will be a busy time for us in St. Louis. We had the fastest and most consistent mini-bot in Colorado along with an autonomous that hung a tube in 15 consecutive matches. We've got a whole new minibot and autonomous planned. We're also in the process of tracking down a drivetrain issue. We seemed a bit underpowered in Colorado as compared to KC. Expect the new and improved robot to turn a few heads.

This is our 3rd consecutive year at champs. We do not take our place here for granted. It is an honor to join the distinguished field at Curie, and our scouts will be watching this thread with great interest.

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573 is ready to make history!!!

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Team 2486 The CocoNuts are stoked to compete with everyone in Curie this year!

See you all there! :)

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Team 987's 2011 robot "Jackpott"....more info to come.

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We know we have built up a name for ourselves in the state of Michigan, but it means a lot to us to know that people outside the state who rarely see us think highly of us as well. We are glad to be competing at the World Championship and we are ready to play against the best of the best here in Curie!

Some robot stuff:

Name: Velociraptor
Drivetrain: Holomonic, four 8" mecanums powered by one CIM each.
Appendage: Double articulating arm
End effector: Belt driven roller claw with the ability to rotate tubes
Minibot: 1.5 second climb, our deployment system may change beforehand.

Our robot was geared for about 15ft/sec free speed, so it's around 11-12ft/sec. We generally hang six tubes a match, making two logos on the top row or one logo on top and one on the middle, depending on our partners. The most tubes we have hung in a match is eight. Our roller claw is a tube magnet and can pick up tubes in almost any way imaginable. Performance wise, we set the high score at both the Waterford District(100-3) and Ann Arbor District(114-1).

Here's a photo:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...f1bd7f62_l.jpg


*Note - the above photo was taken with our old minibot at Waterford.

You can also see some match videos from Waterford, Ann Arbor, and hopefully soon, Michigan State Championship here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/team573


See you guys in ten days!

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I dont have any pictures of us but here is our youtube account with a couple videos from Boilermaker Regional.

http://www.youtube.com/user/FRCIcaru.../1/yrCeEwpm_-Q

We scored 5-8 tubes a match (not counting a first couple matches where we were getting used to things), by saturday our minibot was 100% successful with a time of about 2 seconds with deployment, We went 17-0 and won the regional. If scouts want any more info just send me a pm and ill be glad to help you out.

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Wave robotics is excited to compete on curie! Our robot info can be found here http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...=Wave+robotics

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Here's a pic of SPAM at Palmetto. There is going to be excellent competition in this division.

Eric

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We've been busy with our practice bot this weekend. New minibot runs at 1.2-1.3ss. New deployment is a rail"fun" style. Thanks Dustin(816) and Tyler(2016).

Here's our little robot. By little I mean almost 7 feet wide.

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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/36802?

Here is a good picture of 2363's robot at the Virginia Regional. SPAM it's good to see you guys share our division :)

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Right back atcha' ! We are still riding high on our alliance's win at Palmetto :) We were hoping to get Los Pollos Locos in Curie, yet, but, ahhh well. this is going to be fun.

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So are we! We were disappointed by our 2nd place finish in Virginia, but we lost to a very good alliance, so we can only be so disappointed.

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Team 135 cannot wait!!!

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Here is a picture of our robot. Skunk.i.am

Quick lift, center grabber... popper release mechanism..


thanks
Bob

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MisCar - Team 1574 is proud to return to Curie. Here is a short clip presenting our bot.
More in: miscar1574.com
Can't wait to meet you there.

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Here's 176's robot and minibot.

Specs:
Robot -
2 speed drivetrain (7fps, 16fps)
6wd with AM roughtop tread
2 stage elevator powered by a BB 550 motor
Pneumatic gripper to grab tubes
Wrist powered by a window motor
Deployment arm swing-out powered by a window motor
Deployment to pole contact made by pneumatic cylinder

Minibot -
2 hourglass shafts, each powered by a Tetrix motor
Climbs tower in approximately 1.3 seconds

The robot is averaging 5-6 tubes in teleop, as well as 100% scoring in autonomous on the top row throughout both of our regionals. We won the Granite State regional with 1519 and 175, and were quarter-finalists in Connecticut with 1124 and 714, where we were substituted out after an encoder failure. The encoder has been fixed and tested for St. Louis.

Match video @ BAE thanks to 1519:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bt4JM_FytE

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Here are some pictures of our robot from the Michigan State Championship by Daniel Ernst:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniele...57626489666450
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniele...57626489666450

Additionally, all our MSC matches are posted at our Youtube page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/FRCHOTTe...D78E82EADCD5DE

Robot Specs:
- 2 Stage Elevator lift, powered by dual RS-775s thru CIMulators into a Toughbox. - Originally inspired FRC254/968 in 2007/08
- Arm for tube positioning powered by (2) Window motors.
- 1114 inspired claw powered by a Window motor.
- 8WD - 4" Wheels. (4) CIM drive with AM Supershifters. No pneumatics/servos...Window motor shifter!
- 2 Stage deployment system. 1st stage gas shock deploys alignment device. 2nd stage fires minibot out / onto pole using constant force springs + surgical tubing.

Minibot Specs:
- 118 inspired, cantilevered shaft design.
- Lexan frame.
- Pole activated clamp used to hold the pole. Magnets used to hold clamps open/shut.

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Alright, fine. So here's 57 along with some brief specs. Pictures courtesy Ron Gillory, http://www.sezron.com:
- Half-Octanum* drive (4 Mecanums, 2 Stickies), never measured it, but about 12-15fps in Mecanum
- Pivot-telescoping arm
- Spring-loaded Roller Claw, driven by two independent RS-395s through 131:1 P60s. Spring loading = Who cares about over-inflation? Also, rotating a square around the corner is just amusing.
- New for Champs, 1.2s (fully charged) minibot, with a pretty reliable and forgiving deployment. Should be about 1.5-1.7 with deploy.
- Reliable High-Uber Autonomous, once we work out the distances.
- Regularly scoring 2 High logos by our lonesome.

I'm rather pleased with the whole robot at this point. Our biggest letdown was our original Big'n'Slow(tm) minibot that didn't even benefit from reliability. We've since cribbed notes from the Discobots (2587), improving their design and working out a rather faster "align-wait-fire" style deployment system. I'm told by my students and co-mentors that I'm banned from further tweaking on the minibot, so this looks like what we're going with.

The only thing I'd change at this point is the half-Octanum*. We started with a whole Octanum* and ended up about 6 lbs over, so the choice was pretty obvious. If anyone has 6 lbs of robot weight to lend us, we'd looooove to toss the other half on. As it is, we'll have it available to us at Champs to swap in some lower geared stickies, and in case of extreme emergency. (eg. Oh no, the arm's a pretzel!)

*Yes, I know the accepted spelling is Octocanum. I think mine's easier to say and just as descriptive.

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Here is 103. With the same lift and gripper design as 25, this machine is one of the best bots we have ever created. (Pictures courtesy of Kelly Szymanowski(my sister))

• 6wd 1/10 drop center drive with 8" AM preformance wheels driven by all four cims with AM super shifter (pneumatic actuating) allowing for speeds up to 16 FPS in high and 8 FPS in low
• Essentially the same gear-driven drive-train for the past four years with some slight, but ever so helpful tweaks (Hex shafts new this year) :cool:
• Three stage lift driven by four BB 775's with worm-drive transmission (to eliminate backdriving)
• Inside tube gripper actuated by a pneumatic cylinder allowing for universal and simple pickup (extremely good for transporting tubes also)
• Gripper tilt (pneumatic actuated) to allow for extremely easy capping
• 1.4 second minibit, total of about 1.8 second MB+deployment
• Scored two high logos alone most matches without defense
• Plays very well against defense
• Can even play some great defense (we only know this because our belt came loose one match, which by the way is fixed)
• Hangs Ubertube for the majority of the matches, but with two slight timing changes, we will have it 100%

The biggest problem we have is the swaying of the tower. It was designed with a spring system in the bottom, but it swayed way too much with that, so we added a strut with a dampener to make it more sturdy. That solved that problem for the most part. Other than that, I would say our second biggest weakness is our minibot deployment. It is not extremely fast, but it is reliable. The only problem with deployment is that we use the shifters to launch it out, so we cannot switch gears until the end of the match or the minibot will launch without us wanting it to.

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I must ask...how did everyone get the Curie Division logos in their signatures?

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Check out this thread

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Thanks!!

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Here is 2471's robot, Wallace.

Placing a tube

Deploying Minibot

After placing tube

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Promo video just uploaded to YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLbaKXVKSos

Robot Specs:
2 speed custom gearbox (4th Gen. 987 ball shifter design)
6w drive with lowered center wheel
Single and Double tube autonomous (line following)
Scores from the front and rear of robot
Telescoping arm
Powered Roller claw
Pick up from floor or lanes
~1.3 sec minibot with deployment

Less than 9 days to go!!!!!! See you all soon.....

Also, highlights from San Diego with version 1 auto and minibot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MALNBCu5lw&NR=1

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2056 and 987 will be playing in Einstein again. *knocks on wood*

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Thanks for that....and the compliment.

...maybe it'll be 2056, 987, and 3553 on Einstein? *knocks on wood*

We're all curious to see how the unique 3553 design will fare in St. Louis. Too bad you won't be able to make it, Akash.

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Dustin Benedict (mentor of 816 aka TheFro) will be taking over my position for St. Louis. I believe he will also be drive coach. Since Dustin is a driver who took down 175 and 254 in 2009, I trust his drive coach capabilities. :)

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Wave Robotics Is excited to play on curie this Year! Our Robot info can be found at http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...=Wave+Robotics and match videos of wisconsin are availabe here http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...onal+2011&aq=f

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This is a great picture of 67 and 1023 with the play-by-play announcers in the background. That TV broadcast was awesome. I'm glad it was uploaded to YouTube. Amazing matches!

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166 made it into the elimination matches at both of our regionals this year, with out a minibot or autonomous. We are able to hang 2 top row logos each match, and now we have a 2.8-3 second minibot and autonomous so we should do well! :]

Us winning 3v1 in Las Vegas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyOjqA2hPSQ

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I assume that the shock therapy since LV has persuaded your driver to do a better job avoiding your opponent's LANE? ;)

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That was actually intentional. :eek: (my dad is the drive coach) We wanted to get more practice hanging and because it was a practice match he figured it did not matter. If you watch carfully you can se that the driver hesitates before entering the lane, he knew it was a penalty but my dad said to go so he did.

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Aww, come on... It was just a practice match :)

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Thanks for the great division review Trent! Look forward to seeing you in St. Louis!

-Keaton

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2783's bot: (no pics yet)

Autonomous- hangs one tube (will be consistent once replacement parts come in) on high

Teleop- can hang any tube anywhere

Endgame- linear slide minibot lancher poowed by a window motor, latest minibot is held in with a cable and hitch pin system. the minibot latches onto the pole with 2 70lb (force) wind turbine magnets. current minbot goes up in 4 seconds (a direct drive version may be made)

mechanics:

drivetrain: high speed mecanum (4x cims/ TB nanos). it is normally run at 50% power for preciceness and rant at full poer for speed when the "turbo" trigger is held.

arm: the robot uses a 3 stage arm controlled by 2 geared down BB 550's and 2 springs. all 3 segments work in sync by a cable/pulley system. a 550 or an FP will be on the wrist and the gripper also has a bb motor (forgot the model). the arm, wrist, and gripper all have analog encoders for precise preset positions.

the robot has a low center of gravity (it has never come close to tipping).

the robot has a direct fed (though AP, bypassing the cRIO) camera, controlled by a tilt servo (180 degrees). the current code (perfected tonight) gives drivers real-time video with crosshairs for guiding when the camera is facing forward, and when it faces backwards (to launch minibot), the crosshairs switch to 2 vertical lines (to line up with pole) and the image rotates 180 degrees. the tilt angle is set by the driver's righthand throttle.

the current arm (not used in regionals) is being used on a practice clone chassis, and at 23lb, it will be brought in as withholding allowance material.

Good luck to curie!



Minibot- linear slide launcher (cab

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Team 1923's robot specs:

Reliable autonomous with scoring on top row (has only failed to get points once at CT)

Can score on all three pegs and averages about 1-1.5 logos per match

Has set the high score at NJ of 124 with teams 25 and 1860

Has set the high score at CT of 123 with teams 195 and 155

Third seed at NJ, first seed at CT, winner at CT

~1.3 second minibot w/o deployment (wasn't there at jersey), not timed w/ deployment, estimated 2 second deploy and climb
The inspiration for this minibot is from Team 40(Trinity Robotics from Manchester NH). Thank you for being gracious competitors and helping us out!


Here's some video of us in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G62Ds2riHA

and pictures:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5180/...71e5e608_o.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5092/...9f70d16a_o.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5131/...bbb7d6e4_o.jpg


SEE YOU GUYS ON THE FIELD!

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Can't wait! Team 3459 is an all rookie team. None of us have never done this before! We placed 7th out of 52 at our regional, and are thrilled about going to St. Louis. We think we have a pretty good robot. We were going to borrow a minibot from a team at the NC regional, but we never got in contact with them. Don't know how we'll do, but we'll see! See you all in St. Louis!

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Glad to see you guys in our division. First time for all of us in St. Louis, so we are all noobs in a way.

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If you guys have the parts available (motors, limit switches, c channel, bushings) I think plenty of teams would help you put one or two together. 3553 used to have a pretty ghetto looking minibot that still went up in 1.5 seconds that they could probably help you build.

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57 is going to have a few extra minibots, and we have an extra, slightly crooked deployment system as well. Find me in our pits around 6 on Weds and we'll talk.

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I wouldn't be opposed to helping you build one! pm if interested or find me at champs wearing a team titanium shirt and a hat(I'm literally going to wearing that.).

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Ahhh!!! Giant Mexican Hat in potentially uber crowded pit field bleachers. :eek: :ahh: :eek: :ahh: