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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
If you can program a robot to drive forward for 5 seconds, you can surely program it to drive forward for 5 seconds into a crate.
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I am sure our team will be able to do this but as last year showed asking all teams to move in auto mode is a tall order. While this year we are asking teams move 3 robots in a zone or no points, at least year it was points per robot moved.
Additionally for the 3 totes which are all or none, 1 tote will be easy to push just forward over the carpet. The the other 2 totes required to score will need to be pushed over the plastic covered scoring platform or will need to moved around them. Either of which is a tall order, to get the traction right or the pathing right, for a mid-level team and very unlikely for a low level/rookie team to be able to complete in auto.
Additional with the tote set only worth 6 points, I feel that the time developing and testing code to move a tote around or up a scoring platform could be better spend on new mechanisms or just tele-op practice.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
The auto stack and container set will definitely be trickier, though. Especially since the easiest path to the stack is a 1 robot stack and carry, which is going to have to plow through the containers to make it happen.
Personally, I'm guessing Champs is going to see several full set autos, with 2 robots shoving containers and an elite robot shoving/launching a container, then backing up to grab, stack, and carry the 3 crates for the auto stack. Or possibly grabbing the container and carrying it along with the stack.
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I will agree auto mode at champs will be fun to watch though.