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Originally Posted by PowerfulKitty
This is an interesting question. In our time trial on our tote chute build from plywood it took me about 5 seconds per tote to feed them down the chute (with the stack next to me). I imagine human players will practice this and maybe get it down some, but that is the time that robots want to achieve. If a robot can add a tote to its stack in 10 seconds, then cutting it down to 7 by adding an active intake is clearly beneficial. But if it can already stack them up 5 seconds per tote, cutting that down to 3 seconds by adding an active intake to the robot is not beneficial because the human player is the limiting factor. I do not know if these are realistic times for robots to do, I guess we'll see that at the competitions.
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Our goal is to have both the robot and the human player add a tote to our stack from the HP station in about 4 seconds or less. We are well on our way to meeting this goal. As of yet, we think that we won't need any active intake to do this.
I doubt that we'll see many floor intake robots that can make stacks this fast, even if they have an active intake.