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Originally Posted by MrJohnston
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?  |
See, I think you and I are just disagreeing on nomenclature. Most regionals have 50 to 60 teams, so if 2 or 3 at any given regional have that capacity that's on the order of 5% and I'd call that fairly rare.
I also don't think it's so much capability as time that will be the limiting factor. I suspect that if autonomous were 20 seconds there would be plenty of teams that could get 3 totes. At 15 seconds I expect a lot of "darn that was almost there."