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Originally Posted by DareDad
I expect a stack of 3 totes in autonomous to be fairly rare, so the claim by close to half of the respondents that they will be able to do a 3 tote stack seems somewhat overconfident.
In 15 seconds you have to pick up a tote, move, pick up a tote, move, pick up a tote and then move to the autonomous zone, set them down and move away so you aren't supporting them.
That's a tall order. The video posted this morning of a bot picking up a tote and container then moving to the auton zone took 12+ seconds and that didn't require much movement or autonomous alignment.
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I think we'll see at least two or three robots at each district/regional with this capability.... If robots:
* Have a strong intake system
* Internal stacking
* Load totes the long way
* Have a strong, fast lifter
* Have a way to push recycling containers out of the way
... it isn't that hard. We designed our robot with the the autonomous stack in mind and specifically made several design choices so that we would have the capability.... I am pretty darn certain that our robot has the capability of doing it pretty easily - the only question is whether or not we have given our programming team enough time to get it (and a million other things) running before our week two competition....
If we can do it, so can many other teams... Strong autonomous routines are a focus of many teams.....
The real question to me is: How many robots will have an autonomous routine allowing them to stack all three totes *and* drag the three recycling containers into the auto-zone for a 28 point autonomous?
