Thread: Any non-bridge balancers?
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not all teams need to balance bridge
Posted by Ken Leung at 1/31/2001 10:15 PM EST


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.


In Reply to: Any non-bridge balancers?
Posted by Chris Orimoto on 1/31/2001 2:30 AM EST:



Although balancing the bridge is good (because of the multipliers), not all the robot in an alliance needs to balance the bridge. Chances are, we only need one team per alliance to balance the bridge in a round. That means other teams will need to specialize at other things like controlling balls, or gate keeping, or even getting the stretcher across without the bridge
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I mean, if every team concentrate on balancing the bridge and nothing else, then that will be an even bigger alliance problem! AND No robots to get the balls.

So what I am saying is that every task requires a special robot that can do it. Even if a robot can do everything, it can't be everywhere at the same time. Unless the robot can extend so big that it CAN be everywhere at the same time.

Anyways, my point is that the idea of "trashing the idea of balancing goals" isn't that bad at all. That mean we will get more robot that can do different things in a match, instead of 4 bridge-balancers with limited function. And in the finals, out of the larger population of a special robots, say the big ball pickers, there are going to be more really good big ball pickers just because more teams are doing it.

I am all for perfect alliances and not individual perfect robots.



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