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Re: 2 gear autonomous

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Originally Posted by Basel A View Post
If your partner can place a gear onto a lift, they should just do it on an actual lift. If they can't place a gear onto a lift, then this strategy isn't helpful. If they're 50-50, this is only good if it's somehow easier to place onto your robot than the actual lift, and even then, was it worth all that extra effort?
Yes and no. If the two-gearer has a peg replica, the supplying robot doesn't need to be able to put a gear on a peg. (They need to have the mechanism, but it needs to work neither reliably nor in auto, which is an additional bar that many teams will miss.) Rather, the two-gearer can steer their peg into the gear rather than relying on the other guy to put the gear on the peg. That kind of holder, possibly with some sort of vision aid (that isn't the official tape and could confuse another robot) is also much easier to cheesecake, particularly on robots that struggle with the whole drive-straight issue. I'll say that having been that latter team.

That said, if you're going through that effort to make a two-gear auto peg, you might well be better served with a gear floor pickup that's useful at other times. I guess it'd mostly be about packaging at this point.

In terms of a second gear being less useful than fuel, absolutely, but realize that the team in question may not have that choice. It is possible to have a gear system capable of a two-gear auto and yet not have the capability do fuel handling in your robot. Also realize it's not always playoffs. (We're actually running into this right now: we have some vision targeting strength on the team and the climber and basic gearer are okay, but we're having fuel problems. Fitting a gear floor pickup might actually be better--meaning less likely to hurt our climbing and gear performance even if it doesn't work--than burning more time and tradeoffs trying to integrate fuel. It's not a trajectory I would've picked originally, but somehow it's Week 4.)
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