Thread: Catching a ball
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Re: Catching a ball

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Originally Posted by pandamonium View Post
Yesterday I thought catching would happen by gently tapping a ball over the truss. Today watching an interesting game of racket-ball I realized the true potential of catching.

Robot 1 gets ball from human player and immediately shoots it over truss at far wall. Robot 2 is approximately between 2 and 3 feet in front of the wall and catches the rebound. My prototype of a 68 inch box seemed to be able to catch a good deal of balls from 35 feet... Then 1 or 10 point goal shoot as you see fit.

Always keeping your shooting / acquiring mechanism facing the goal is a huge advantage! Also even when the ball is not caught it should be close to you.
Yeah, I've been thinking about this too, and there's nothing preventing the first robot from being a goalie. I wouldn't be surprised to see an alliance turn it into something similar to volleyball at some point.

Human Player throws it up goalie serves it, second robot either takes the shot or serves it up for a third assist.

If an alliance was able to do this, the importance of a goalie would be critical.

Even just a static punter would be quite valuable.
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