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Re: Gears on the floor?

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Originally Posted by GreyingJay View Post
Yeah, I agree, but I think that would be far more likely than the "I'll place one gear and then you pass me another one and I'll place that one too" scenario that was described above.

It is a fun and clever thought experiment: set up your robot such that in auto it situates itself on the field adjacent to the airship and presents a peg to another robot that thinks it is placing its gear on the center peg.

The more productive goal will likely be: place the gear, run to a hopper, dump it, shoot high goals until time runs out.
I get it. Was just thinking about how a team could 'solo' 120 auto gear points though. The peg->hopper->vomit-balls-and-pray route seems a little far-fetched because of how long the actions could take (including time of flight - you can't just line-drive into the high goal like prior years). If there were 1 partner that could place on a side lift, and a team had a method to sense gears on the ground, then a 2-bot/3-gear auton seems more plausible.
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