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Originally Posted by AMendenhall
Maximum volume of robot, M=34,560 inches cubed.
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Don't forget that that volume includes the bumpers... ~3.25 inches from each side of the robot that the frame perimeter must be held within. So maximally, robots themselves can actually only be 23718 cubic inches (and thats in the short orientation, its actually less in the tall orientation, at 21573 cubic inches).
Keep in mind that the random packing density is maximally 64% (optimal planned packing is higher, but thats not going to happen during a match). So we take the number of fuel that an empty space of the size that the robot could fit in to be only 231. Now consider that the robot needs electronics, a frame, wheels, and some mechanism to actually dump the balls, and I think you'd be lucky to see 100, maybe 150 ball dumps, if that's all the robot does.
Now for the discussion of scouting, we are considering the following for our electronic scouting app (that we plan to release before competitions start):
- go around before matches start and ask teams what the maximum number of fuel their robot can hold is, save that data in our app
- during match scouting, have a slider to estimate (to nearest 5 for low goal) the number of fuel scored by a robot, with a marker / upper limit just above the maximum capacity that the team reported their robot being able to score. Gives our scouters a way of visually going - "their robot looks about half full, so must be half of the number they reported", etc.