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Originally Posted by Collmandoman
I've been really curious as to why the elevator robots didn't just dead reckon putting a vision tetra on the center goal.. you have a 1/4 chance one will lie in the middle path.. drive (through both possible vis tetras on the center row) then raise then drive alittle more and drop - back away
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Our robot is not an elevator robot but we are going to work on a blind vision tetra cap. In Sacramento, we were able get our robot to knock off the hanging tetra, and in silicon valley, we were able to cap a non-vision tetra. We were able to do this because our robot was so reliable. We ran out of things to do in the pit between matches so we gave the opportunity for our programmers to shine. Our capping program at silicon valley helped us get the GM Industrial Design Award. At Atlanta, we anticipate, plenty of time to add to our current program and create a blind vision tetra cap. Why would we have one? If all of our robots can knock down the hanging tetra or cap the non-vision one, one robot has to sit out in the middle. So if our robot has a chance of capping a vision tetra, it is still better than doing nothing.