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Originally Posted by trumpthero786
 Great work. This is basically Storm's robot with pneumatic tires! Here it is. Do you have any vision system/processing? It might help line up those shots a little more easily. |
I was shown a picture of your robot yesterday. I was trying to figure out which team built it, and now I know. You have the beaver tail, and we have the buck tooth.
We plan to have vision on the robot. Right now we are working on a custom case for the camera internals since the stock case is practically unmountable. Our vision was our spy for the day. The only shots shown in this video that missed were at 1:53 3:25 and 3:40. All others made it. I was actually surprised at how well we shot so early into practicing.
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Originally Posted by Ginger Power
What was your goal during this practice round? To score as quickly and efficiently as possible or are you still just getting a feel for the robot? It looks incredible either way!
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The goal was to score quickly and do timed cycles and also get a feel for the robot. What you see is our different drive team candidates trying out the bot. Unfortunately our controllers weren't cooperating for some of the day.
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Originally Posted by JesseK
You'll want to add the cloth/weight bar to the low bar. Some snags are a p.i.t.a. to work through.
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Originally Posted by Drakxii
Looks good but I will second that you should add a cloth to the low bar. It snagged us up a couple of times.
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If anyone were to know about snagging it would be us! We had the low bar cloth on there until our portcullis horns on the front of the intake tore through it in the first few minutes of practice! That's why our drivers were driving backwards through the low bar. We will eventually build the back bumper and practice with some intact fabric.
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Originally Posted by Alpha Beta
It looks like the driver was taking all of their shots from a position that could be prone to defense. Was that a design choice, or will future practice sessions feature pulling back to the safety of the outer-works or locking physically into the batter for the shot?
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I'm fairly certain that this is not the area where we wish to shoot. There still needs to be adjustments on our angle. From earlier in the season we wanted to shoot from the batter and the outer works. I believe that this is still the plan.
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Originally Posted by BenGuy
Cool, I especially like the intake. You guys went over the moat a lot in the video, but not much else, it looks like it can do the portcullis and low bar easily. Does it have trouble with any obstacles? Cool intake by the way.
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Once the little horns on the front of the intake get under the portcullis, lifting it is cake. Lining up is the only hard part. The only obstacle we ever had big trouble with was the moat. That was what made us shorten the wheel base early in the season; to put the wheels closer together. We wanted to make sure that everyone trying out to drive could go over that defense.