[MagiChau]

Thank you 1918 for the great competition at Gull Lake, and thank you West Michigan for being a great event existing since, I believe, 2001? We hope to make a big improvement from our performance at Gull Lake. I look forward to seeing all the robots we haven't seen yet in action.

Since you have started on the topic of hybrid I will share information about our & my thoughts on hybrid after Gull Lake.

The standard 12 points from our robot in autonomous are of the highest priority so we will most likely prefer shooting first over tipping the bridge first especially if we know the other alliance cannot tip the center bridge. Autonomous is definitely as big with it determining a large portion of final match score, seeding, and tie-breakers in elimination matches.

We will see if our robot can start out backwards so the turret can turn around and shoot, and then drive forward to tip the center bridge. We will see if we can get our robot able to suck up balls from the bridge and score those. We have been capable of tipping the bridge without our robot in the path of the falling balls so that is another option for autonomous.

Honestly, right now we are focused on refining our ability in tele-op for scoring balls programming wise with camera tracking & shooter calculations. At Gull Lake we obviously wanted guaranteed points with the fender shots.

You did not mention how to time the shots in autonomous. The time it takes for each robot's shot to reach the net probably should be noted to help time the shots better.

I have not asked so what did your team use for the autonomous driving at Gull Lake? I currently have an untested program for trapezoidal motion profile because of the simplicity of the implementation.