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Re: [moderated] Collaboration
What I am most intrigued about is the cooperation in the offseason. I had suggested this to a friend on another local team, that we may collaborate in the off season to develop technologies that would then be used in the season.
We are both rookie teams, we figured we could pool our resources and come up with some very successful technologies. Such as autonamous, the electrical folks on both teams when they first met (at a Georgia Tech TES) were very excited about their dashboard programs, encoders and inertial guideance. Also we wished to develop a form of machine vision that could sense the location of the playing pieces on the field and create a digital map of where every fied piece is. This system would also allow the robot to calibrate its sensors to the field.
This endevor would be both very costly and require much expertise that neither team on its own had. However, we felt that if we collaborated we could solve our problems together.
To make a long story short, final exams rolled around, then it was the winter break, and then the build season started. We had not collaborated.
I feel this is an excellent form of collaboration. Take the car example, Porche and VW collaborated to build the Chyanne and the Touraeg respectively. The cars systems are very similar, technologies were developed jointly as a result of their cooperation. They share a very similar chassis and transmission, however, the Porche looks nothing like the VW. They each took the base level technologies and developed something unique.
It would be pointless to have the same identical car because then they would not be in competition. That is why I ask, if both teams were to be yearning for the last spot in the finals. They were trying to get choosen, by a finalist team, what would set one team apart from the other? They are the same.
That is why there are different quirks about the two SUVs. The Porche is pricier but also more powerful. The VW is cheaper but lacks some of Porche's "umph". Which one would you pick?
Good luck!
-Andy
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