Thread: How many of you are actually being a feeder bot?
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Unread 08-01-2012, 21:13
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Re: How many of you are actually being a feeder bot?
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Originally Posted by KrazyCarl92 View Post
It seems as though a robot designed around reliable shooting could easily transition to be a facilitator/feeder/defense-when-there-aren't-balls bot if all of the other robots functions perform well other than consistently accurate shooting. So by designing around the strategy to score well, and then failing to score reliably, I think a team could have themselves a VERY good feeder bot. There would probably be some advantage to designing around that strategy from the get go, but we shall see.
My argument against that was the fact that we would allocate such a big chunk of our time with the camera and projectile path predictions and ect. I want to focus on a dynamic system for balancing the robot. I want to perfect that. Having designed as a feeder will let us forgo the "storage" area and just chuck the balls across the field as soon as it gets picked up. (The shooter is on a turret.)
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