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Originally Posted by Bryce2471
What made you veer away from shooting from the outer works? I know you had a great key shooter in 2012.
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Thanks for the nod on the 2012 shooter.
Benton hit on one of the key points, the climber architecture that we were designing for made bringing the ball into the robot not feasible. As such we were looking at attempting to shoot with a mechanism packaged inside the collector arm. The position of the arm would have to be held somewhere in the middle of its travel, most likely by a PID controller, and would also have an extremely low release point. The potential for our shot to be blocked and the difficulty of precisely controlling the arm, coupled with the fact that we had decided to design for low bar compliance to aid in breaching, led us away from shooting from the outer-works.
Several sub-teams from the design group have been working on a variety of shooters since we began prototyping at the beginning of week two. One such design was manufactured, but we were not satisfied with it's effective collection width and pushed it's potential implementation until after week one. It is our intention to shoot for week three at Central.