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Re: Defensive Bot poll

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery View Post
A good drive base (and drivers) will do far more for making a team an effective defender than any other mechanism.
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Originally Posted by daliberator View Post
I agree, especially when defending against a robot whose drivers have less experience.
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Originally Posted by Boltman View Post
..and without vision
How can vision save you from defense? Is there an example from 2012 perhaps that shows a vision targeting system overcoming rough defense?

My team is investigating whether vision is necessary, just as my old team did in 2012. We ended up not using vision because it was easy enough to for the driver to accurately line up on the key where you can't get defended against. This year may be different.

Right now the only way I can see a good vision system overcoming rough defense is if you have a turreted shooter with a high release point, and spend days calibrating the speed and angle of shots. My guess is that the most accurate high goal scorers at events will have a "sweet spot" to shoot from, and that very few (think 1717 in 2012) will be able to shoot from a wide variety of places and thus circumvent the defensive strategy of nudging the scorer while it's trying to line up in its sweet spot.
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