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It is possible my friends(820pts)
Posted by Andrew Harrison at 03/26/2001 9:41 PM EST
Student on team #349, The Robahamas, from International Academy and Ford/Bosch.
In Reply to: What about scoring 3 large balls??
Posted by Tom S. on 03/26/2001 4:03 PM EST:
Here is the stradegy and belive it or not we can accomplish it. However doing it in under a minute is the tricky part. Alright it starts out like this: our robot goes over the bridge with a another good big ball loading robot. While we are going over, another big ball loading robot goes under the bar such as team 469 and a multi functional (wedge/under bar/alright goal moving) robot such as team 67 moves the goal to the playerstation. The human players quickly fill the goal up with 12 balls while the three big ball robots get their balls(this is including us). At the same time the multi facit robot is going under the bar and moving the goal next to the bridge or this may be done by a big ball robot before they get their ball. We head back over the bridge with a big ball and balance it then slide our grippers down and pull the goal over the ramp and while we are doing this the multi functional robot is getting ready to wedge on the human side. Once their robot is under the ramp we push the goal near the end of the ramp(toward the field teams) and let go. We then move to the side of the ramp, opposite of the goal placed next to the ramp earlier. We then extend our arm over the ramp and hook onto the top of the goal and pull it down sideways onto the ramp. The wedge robot then removes itself and hurries into the end zone while the other 2 big ball robots are waiting with 2 big balls to put on the side of the now balanced goal. It works because the goal is balanced on its side poles and not it's base. If you want to see us do this you can see a picture of it on this site, this was before we put hooks on our grippers though so it works much better and faster now. This only works in theory and with the right alliance it has not yet been tried in competition. This is a very tricky stradegy, but in the end if comlpeted correctly and in under a minute you end up with 820 points. Also if there was some way you could get the fourth big ball on there, which is possible as three big balls fit on the side of a goal, that's 920 points. Also feel free to check out some of the other unique capabilities of our robot in the robot gallery, were the Robahamas team 349 however one of the pics says 348. We're especially proud of our suspension and bar hopping.
Just something to think about...
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