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Originally Posted by cpeister
After the first failure of our bot, the drive team tethered it up and tested it, and everything seemed to be working fine. From what I understand, they fully expected the robot to be functioning in the next match, and therefore did not call in a backup bot.
Evidently, our problems were not solved and we experienced a near identical failure in the next match.
On the way home last night we believed that the digital sidecar had failed. This could have been the result of 4 events worth of wear and tear, as well as playing our first defense of the season, with some heavy hits.
Then, biancs15 from Team 610 brought this to our attention today, regarding the banebots motor on our arm.
At this point we don't know the cause of our problems, but we will be looking into it in the coming days.
Although what happened was disappointing, we are still very excited to have gone as far as we did. 2016 and 177, sorry we couldn't perform for you guys in the end. |
Cale,
I had a chance to watch most of your qualifying and elimination round matches, and if I am not mistaken the very same incident happened once on Archimedes. It was 781's last match on Thursday, match 57. Team 781 was immobile after slightly moving in autonomous and then unable to move throughout the match resulting in a score of 78-7. The peculiar thing about it all was that you were in Blue 3 that match, like the two finals matches. I wonder if there was something about being at the Blue 3 station that caused a communication issue for your robot, whether it was a hardware/software problem on your end or theirs... It seems weird that tethered wouldn't be a problem, if it was in fact the banebots motor. You only played on Blue 3 5 times, 3 of which resulted in a robot that couldn't move. Now it could just be a coincidence. Does anyone with detailed scouting reports have anything suggesting that it happened to other teams, specifically playing on Blue 3? (Likely an isolated or unrelated problem though). Anywho it would be nice to find out what happened. As amazing as watching your journey was to the finals I felt like 111, 254, 973's alliance would have been victorious regardless, but that is something which can only be speculated. What I personally would love to see is the finalists and champions play another couple matches just for fun at an invitational, like IRI. Obviously it wouldn't be the same as changes may be made to robots between now and then and maybe new drivers etc, but it would be fun!
David