[Gdeaver]

The CMP proved that there is a problem. Robots go dead during a match. The big problem as I see it is that there are many points of failure. Power and the power connector are just one. Isn't FIRST about the engineering mind set? Let's Give the students a real world example of how to kill a technical problem.
I would like to suggest the people working on this problem need allot more info than they have now. First they need a list of robots and matches were there was a failure. They need specific info about the robots on the field. Everything from radio mounting, language, video stream details, DS configuration, DS laptop details. Failure description (did the robot come back to life) and many more robot specific configuration details. Any solutions they tried. This could be sent out to teams as a questionnaire and the responses tabulated. An analysis may yield points to explore. The dropped coms issue has been around for some time. It needs to be attacked and killed.