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Re: Defense-TWO sides to the story
Posted by ChrisH at 04/27/2001 11:45 AM EST


Engineer on team #330, Beach 'Bots, from Hope Chapel Academy and NASA JPL, J & F Machine, Raytheon, et al.


In Reply to: Re: Defense-TWO sides to the story
Posted by Dan on 04/27/2001 1:26 AM EST:



: What about the high-capability, high-scoring robots that were turned into "a slug of a do nothing robot" when they were simply asked to crossed the field and sit or just pull the ramp down, etc?

Kris Unruh, one of our team leaders, correctly identified the great flaw in this years game at a "lessons learned" meeting we had earlier this week.

He stated that there was one difficult task that absolutly had to be accomplished for a good score, but that only one robot on the field could perform the task. Since most teams figured out the necessity of goal balancing, a large number built goal balancing robots. Most had additional capabilities as well.

So what do you do when you walk into a strategy session and there are three balancing robots, and at least two of them can handle big balls. But none of them are consistent? Who gets to make the "big play"?

I know our team made a deliberate decision NOT to push to do the balancing. We were quite capable of doing so, we could also put up big balls and quite quickly too. But we didn't necessarily push to do that either.

Our motto is "To Learn, To Compete and To Serve" We felt that pushing our way into doing a critical task was not necessarily living up to who we are. But that did on occasion result in our being turned into a "slug-of-a-do-nothing-robot". So be it

I think that FIRST expected us to push more towards niche designs than we did. I think the ideal alliance would be 1 balancer, 2 bigball limbobots and 1 small ball limbobot. But I didn't see any of the later.

I know that next year it would improve the game if there was either more than one crucial task, or more than one opportunity to perform it during a round.

It will be interesting to see what they come up with.

Chris Husmann, PE
Team 330 the Beach'Bots



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