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Re: Drive Team Configuration
In 2010 for 1178 we had:
Driver: Drove the robot, could activate the kicker, or hold down a button to deactivate it
Weapons Operator: (Team Name, makes it sound really cool) Could kick, deactivate kicker, change kick setting and activate the winch on the robot.
Coach: Talked strategy with the other teams before the match, keep track of the score and penalties, help the human players communicate (if the person on the trident wasn't paying attention) and sometimes would tell us what our alliance partners would do
Human player: Pulled the balls out of the corral and handed them to the person with the trident
We kept the same four people for the whole St. Louis Regional, and aside from robot problems, it worked fairly well. I cannot tell you about 2009 but in 2008 the driver was given more control of other functions as the Weapons Operator had a complex task.
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Note: You cannot tell the difference between "OK Go" and "OK No" when there 2 walls between you and the robot. At that point, the only thing between injury and safety for the mechanical guys is their ninja skills.
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