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Re: Lessons learned for Week 2 Regionals?

So don't we get points for towers not triggering?

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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol View Post
The problem with the tower triggers is two-fold:

1 - False positives: The tower will sometimes trigger because of a hard hit by a hostbot on the pole or base, before the minibot even begins to move.

2 - False negatives: The tower will not trigger even when soundly smacked by the minibot.

At Kettering, the false negatives were associated with the faster minibots. It was noted that in order to eliminate the false positives, the sensitivity was decreased, and it was surmised that the fastest minibots did not provide enough contact time to trigger the tower. It was not a matter of force, but of time of contact.

Hopefully this can be addressed.
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