Thread: "Dud" robots
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Unread 05-01-2014, 12:02
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Re: "Dud" robots

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Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur View Post
Do you really believe that a robot will consistently and repeatably be able to retrieve the inbound pass, drive to the truss, toss the ball over the truss, retrieve the (now bouncing) ball, drive to a scoring position, shoot and score in the high goal, and get back to retrieve another inbounds pass in less than 25 seconds?

I think you are, very much, overestimating most teams capabilities. In the end, there may be 1 or 2 teams in all of FIRST that might be able to pull this off on the competition field, but I doubt it.
Looking at several videos of 1114 in 2008, they were able to hurdle 6-7 times in teleop fairly consistently, on a crowded overdrive field. I see no reason an elite level robot could not do a similar number of cycles in 2014.