Thread: A good driver makes his own strategy. What do you think?
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in a game of "all for one" yes, in this "one of all"... no..
Posted by colleen - T190 at 03/15/2001 8:46 AM EST


Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science and WPI.


In Reply to: A good driver makes his own strategy. What do you think?
Posted by bill whitley on 03/14/2001 9:49 PM EST:



First off--

The driver doesn't necessarily know the robot better than anyone else.. in certain situations they do.. but that isn't true for every team...

Secondly, the drivers should be more concerned with "how to do it" and "what if something goes wrong" than the "what basic task will our team do this match"..

From my experience at UTC and LongIsland as coach.. i found that is the EXPERIENCE of the person, and not who the person (student, engineer, parent) is that makes a difference.. experience knows how to walk and talk the ropes a little better most often... and they know how to excude a confidence in their ideas..

Point of note as to why the situation of "drivers doing strategy" doesn't work: at our first regional this year.. we came up to an alliance where someone was going to use the stretcher, this other team with their driver negotiating was going to pull the stretcher.. however, the ramp would need to be retoggled first.. they were the only ones who could do it BUT, as STATED DIRECTLY FROM THE DRIVER, they "can't reset the ramp with something in tow".. my suggestion "go reset the ramp THEN grab the stretcher and go over".. their response "what do you mean by 'reset the ramp'?"

That match cost us a lot of points because I was still trying to get this concept across as woodie was announcing.. we had to end up trying to reset the ramp from an orientation we never did, with an arm that really should have been doing it..

In the days of one-on-one-on-one.. drivers deciding strategy (if you didn't have a good strategy/scouting team) would be ok.. cause (like soap108 said) your robot is built to do a task, it's simply a matter of execution... now.. you're robot is built to do one or many things that you can't just go out and "do" as a driver would.. you have to discuss, decide, plan, execute in
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