Thread: How are <1.5 sec Minibots doing it ? Gearbox mods allowed ?
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Unread 13-03-2011, 01:03
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Re: How are <1.5 sec Minibots doing it ? Gearbox mods allowed ?
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Originally Posted by WizenedEE View Post
Is very, very reliable 11:15? Less than half?

We haven't gone to an actual competition yet, but we've never failed in deploying - obviously, it will be different with all of the other robots flying everywhere, but still. What was yours like during testing?
Honestly, it was fail proof, but not human proof. It is programmed that the robot backs up into the pole as it deploys so it is guarantee that it deploys. The 4 were human errors such as forgetting to put the deadman switch on or driving away from the pole as it deployed or going to the pole too late(we just get pushed around) But it makes it every single time as long as we set up around 25 sec. But we did not choose to use the arm (we zip tied it to the robot), so we went defensive (because of our design flaw, that was our down fall) then deploy every match.

Edit: that was not the gear ratio, I am saying reliability > speed. We had a 4 second minibot


Edit: that minibot alone got us to the #3 spot (we dropped down to #4 when we DQed for getting pushed into the scoring zone by the other robots several times at the semis)
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