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Re: Drive Team Configuration

I think the usual drive-team combination for an FRC team is similar to what your team uses.

In my opinion, there is generally too much for one person to control on a single FRC robot effectively, requiring a second driver/Operator/Co-Pilot.*

On Team RUSH we typically give one driver complete control over the chassis of the robot and nothing else, and everything else is given to the other driver. The exceptions to this being that in 2009 we attempted to give the chassis driver control over the moonrock intake rollers, which was generally unsuccessful and just easier for the "co-pilot" to operate.

Also, as the posters above mentioned, having a human player that can be aware of things going on on the field and communicate them to your coach or drive team can be a great strength.


*The only exceptions to this that comes to mind are from 2008 where several teams built robots to do laps with few, to no, additional mechanisms for other tasks, the most prominent of these teams being world-champs team 148.
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Last edited by Josh Fox : 24-12-2010 at 11:02. Reason: Additional information.
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