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Re: Driving Practice
Let me start off by saying you and your team did an incredible job this year. Almost making it to Einstein as a first year team!
On to your question. As has been mentioned above, the most important thing, for me at least, is to simulate the conditions of actual matches as best you can. For our team, this meant building a mostly full practice field. I think what lethc from 1806 said above about depth perception is very important and having a field like setup can help with this. Finally, what works for us, run practice matches using the practice feature of the driver station over and over. Also, try to simulate as many of the things you could feasibly encounter in competition. This year, for example, we put the drawbridge and portcullis in the way of the driver station. Whatever you do, getting very familiar with how the robot acts in many different situations is very beneficial. If something goes wrong in competition, you'll have a much better chance of knowing how to work with it.
Out of curiosity, what did operating entail for your robot this year? What systems did you control?
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