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Originally Posted by EricH
I'm just curious to know, how good was your scouting work, and what was your approach?
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MOE always has a serious scouting effort, and once again this year it was led by our own "Lord of the Dance", Bernie. Two other students, Rebecca and Morgan assisted in organizing the whole effort.
On Thursday, we would look at robots in the pits and during practice and fill out capability sheets, describing the different functions the robot could/could not perform.
On Friday and Saturday, we would fill out a match sheet for each robot in every match. It had a Field diagram at the top to trace autonomous moves and tetra placements. The section below was a checklist broken into 5 second intervals. Robots could "Collect" tetras at three locations --
Human,
Auto Loader or
Floor (scouts circled A, H or F in the checkbox). They could do 4 things with the tetras: 1)
CONtain, 2) Cap, 3)
Drop and 4) have it slide down their arm and
Tangle on the bot (mark Con, or circle D or T). For capping, we recorded
# of tetras placed on the goal (1 for most robots), the lowest tetra
level capped (if 2 were already on goal, then the robot is capping the third level), and the specific goal
ID that was capped (Goals were identified as A through I.)
We had additional checkboxes to indicate if the team was defended while capping, if they played defense (and against whom), and if they completed a row with their cap, stole a row with their cap or stole the opponents home row.
The final bit of information was when the team began to run for their "Home". Surprisingly some teams were heading home with 20 - 25 seconds remaining in a match. We also recorded penalties against the team if they were announced.
The one thing we wished to implement that we just did not have time for was to enter this in a spreadsheet/database for realtime analysis (like the Cheesey Poofs did).
Bernie, Rebecca and Morgan were able to take the forms we completed and put together a very good plan not only how to defeat our opponents, but how our own alliance could best complement each other. They were very instrumental in passng that information on to our competition team.
I have a PDF copy of our match sheet if anyone would like a copy of it, but it is over the 100k limit (114 or something like that). PM me if you would like to receive it.