The Corvallis (Oregon) High School Week 0 event went quite well for us!
Here are a couple things I noticed:
- The field does get quite messy
- There are some teams that specialize in one thing (e.g. just getting RC's)
- Getting totes from the feeder station is a lot easier than getting them from the Landfill (for our team)
- We were able to make 2 stacks of 3 totes (with an RC and litter) within the Teleop time
- Throwing the litter is pointless. It just gets on your side of the field and none of the robots we able to move it into the landfill
- Looking at the point above, I hope nobody will try to throw the litter and waste it (when they could go into RC's)
- For feeder station bots (like ours), it's hard to line up perfectly with the angle that the driver station is to the feeder
That's all I can think of for now. I think we learned a lot about strategies (e.g. working with specialized alliance partners to save steps) as well. Very informative!