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Re: [FTC]: Robot Capabilities

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
After quickly realizing I don't have a team, might as well add some thoughts to Rick's excellent analysis on what I see as stuff that seems particularly important. Disclaimer that I could be very wrong.



Though I don't know how you can build a sliding release point in FTC, I do know sliding release points (especially in Lunacy) resulted in much faster firing, to the point that notable teams this year that relied on wheel speed would abandon ranged firing altogether in favor of building a hood permanently tilted.



40 points, depending on the strategy, might not be the end of the world. I'm not saying it's anything you should bank on but it certainly will happen in at least a few matches with the specific intent of messing up autonomy. Considering auto points are worth double (basically), even if they pick up all the balls they miss or they don't fire if the goal gets messed up, you could potentially deny more points than would be scored in very extreme circumstances.



If I understand what I saw correctly a lot of this was trouble turning, which omni wheels will help with. Holonomic drives will excel at chasing the 5 point goal in particular. If I were building an FTC robot I would go 6 wheel for other reasons though.

I would not be surprised to see a swerve chassis of some sort this year.



This is what I've been trying to push on anyone who will listen. Almost every team I've talked to just wants to deploy the ramp then use intake to get them from there, and that's giving your opponent free points. Controlling the gates with a drop down hopper or just some "wings" or something is more important in my mind than human loading in Lunacy or Aim High. I wonder if you could get away with no floor intake at all if you really had to.



I honestly think the 10 point goal is the most important part of the game. Scoring in it is just as valuable as scoring in autonomous, but easier as you have drivers to control it. The goals are also wider so you can shoot 2 or 3 balls wide into the goal, unloading at ridiculous speeds. Just one corner worth of balls plus a doubler and your preload and you break 400 points. 40 point penalty doesn't look so bad now.
I wouldn't count on anyone trying to spin the bar in autonomous because by doing so they're saying that at least 8 balls will be scored in the high goal and I think that's very unlikely to happen.
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