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Originally Posted by Shadow503
It can't be that hard: Drive?Straight!Turn?Left!!
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It's actually pretty hard to make your robot drive exactly straight for ~40 feet, especially if you're 2-3 degrees off of "straight" when you start out. And for this game, how hard do you turn left? Do you turn left with a 0 or 5 foot turn radius? There are a HUGE amount of things to consider if you want to have a successful hybrid mode. Going over the first line is a start, but it doesn't take 30 seconds to do it. Rookie teams should be able to setup a simple couple of lines that pseudo-says "After 5 seconds into the match (so I don't crash into my alliance), go forward for 5 seconds." Even at 7 ft/second, on a full battery that's at least 35 feet which is enough to cross the first line.
I'm still an advocate of the 15-second autonomous period. It's hard enough to build a good teleoperated robot for some teams. Telling those teams they have to work even HARDER is just plain mean.
If the glamour bots this year really want to step up their own hybrid mode, they should either hurdle or knock the ball off of both their own and their opponents' overpasses. That in itself is pretty hard and requires some sort of extra guidance or tracking system with some extra speed too.