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Re: More Than 1 Ball In Autonomous?

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Originally Posted by gpetilli View Post
This sounds like a very complicated AUTO program. I would imagine it is much easier to simply have a poor shooter put the ball touching the bumper and if someone else can gather and shoot, great. At 8 sec drive forward full speed for mobility - dont look at hot goals. Simple and effective.
The purpose of this is to simplify the routine. Picking up a single ball is easy and will be one of the multiple routines used, but the amount of driving and fine tuned positioning needed to do the same for three balls is more work than using the Human Player.

Think about it, as the receiver of the extra balls, you only need to program your robot to shoot, reload, shoot, reload, shoot, and drive if there's time. Hot Goal will be disregarded, you're bound to get one or two each match without trying, so why bother for the extra 2.5 points per shot?

As the robot passing to the Human Player, you just set up sideways somewhere pretty close to the right distance (accuracy doesn't matter) shoot, turn 90 degrees, and drive. Maybe back up again if you're feeling fancy.

You just need the right Alliance for it.