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Originally Posted by Team3844
We have not been able to break the 4.5 sec mark per tote. It typically takes our HP 30 seconds to feed a stack of 6.
Is anyone getting faster speeds than this? If so how?
We have a Feeding station built to the specs we got at kickoff. The HP says it is pretty substandard compared to the field feeder station.
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Since your question seems to be about the human player, I'll answer as to what our human players do.
The biggest piece is preparation. During autonomous, our human player slides three upside-down totes into the human player zone while the driver slides an additional six totes from the other side of the field over to the human player. We then have the third human player on the team place totes, right side up, on the upside-down totes for our human player to slide into the tote chute. This way the human player doesn't have to place the tote into the chute so much as slide it straight off the little platform of upside-down totes and into the chute. In doing this our human players can load a full stack of six onto the field in about 16-18 seconds, or just slightly faster than our robot can stack them.
Since our stacking is fully automated, I (as the driver) have helped our human player by placing the totes for them on their platform without the need for a human player from a different team if that human player was good at throwing noodles. I can also throw noodles during the stacking time if no human player is available or comfortable with throwing them.