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Originally Posted by PayneTrain
I hope teams, when designing, think of how humans throw a basketball. They don't launch it at the square of the backboard, they try to arc their shot.
Think of how your rotational velocity of your pitchers, pitch of the launcher, and distance from the hoop go into arcing the ball instead of launching it.
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I think that using the human method is fine for humans, but since the robot isn't human, teams might need to play around with different methods and see what can be done successfully with the fewest degrees of freedom. In 2006, like I said, teams that used a single wheel shooter that gave the ball a lot of backspin were successful. Think about how it works, and what's required to do it.
edit: also look at the teams that were successful in 2009, although the number of balls was different, there were a lot of teams that scored consistently by getting right next to the target and dumping the balls in