[cbolin]

Hi,
We used human loading station exclusively for the following reasons.
1. Our human player is 6' 3" and can place the top of a tetra about 7' in the air onto the end of our robot arm.
2. The robot arm is elevated about 54 degrees(at start) which is the angle we use for stacking a tetra and it is extended about 10 feet.

So, human player loads the tetra, driver turns robot to goal, extends arm to necessary length and decreases the elevation to set the tetra down.

Now, in order to pickup an autoloader tetra, the arm needs to come down to about 5 degrees which takes about 10 seconds. So thats 10 seconds down, grab tetra, 10 seconds up....wastes a lot of time.

Regards,
Chuck