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Re: Value of a Gear Ground Pickup

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
The key advantage is that if it's truly a touch it, own it intake, you're going to be able to cycle without stopping and waiting. The human player drops the gear 2 seconds before your robot drives past, your robot flies through and sucks in the gear, and you've shaved a second or two off each cycle.

Additionally, if your partners are able to drop gears, you can be the gear-scoring specialist on an alliance who stays near the pegs placing gears on them while shooting oriented robots spend a greater percentage of their time shooting balls into the high goal.

That said, I don't think it is a big enough advantage to justify doing if you haven't figured out a simple solution. And you should have a human player based backup design ready to bolt on if it doesn't work like you want to. If it's slower than driving into the wall and getting it from the human player, it's a waste.
This pretty much lines up with my view. if you want to maximize any process, you overlap the steps that can be overlapped to shave time. For gears this means the HP gets the gear as far out the slot as possible (frisbee gears will happen). Your robot does not slow doe and start herding the gear. in the distance between where you get it and the lift, you have time to get it up off the floor and into position. While driving back to get the next gear you start moving that device back down into place. A robot who did only this and had tons of drive practice could conceivably get 12 gears (1-2 auto, 9 cycles, and 1-2 dropped or placed by partner.)

we will not be doing this, but I hope someone does. it will be a thing of beauty.
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