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Simplicity Vs. Complexity

Hello everyone,

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about the nature of designing a 'power-house' robot. For Logomotion, our team designed a fairly complex robot for a second year team. We used mecanum wheels and a 100% pneumatic arm assemblage. In the end, we were one of the Bayou Regional winners and were able to attend the World Championship more from fluke than design. Our robot happened to be bulky enough, and our drivers quick enough, to allow us to play some pretty decent defense.

Still - this was a bit of an aligning of the stars. With that in mind, I've been looking at a number of Bots and I cannot figure if simplicity is the best option or if better complexity can yield higher results. Is the simplest option usually the best - IE. using an elevator lift rather than a pneumatic arm, or is it simply needing the programming to support more complicated options?

Thoughts?
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