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Stretcher...
Posted by Alan Federman at 04/11/2001 3:39 PM EST
Engineer on team #255, Odyssey, from Foothill HS, San Jose and NASA. In Reply to: What really would have helped in finals is....... Posted by Anthony S. on 04/10/2001 8:51 PM EST: I am sorry - the stretcher is a suckers bet. why would you want to totally crowd the bridge for 30 to 40 seconds to score 30 points? Realistically you'd be better off sending two robots that could handle big balls which would give you 40 points. The stretcher might of wokred if it was smaller - it was just too unwieldy to be manipulated easily. One team (from Seattle?) built a robot designed to pass a strecher and a robot OVER the bar - but it was just too complicated and never worked. Now you could use the strecher if you had a busted robot or no big ball handlers - but if you can handle the strecher you probably can also balance at least 1 goal - and that is more valuable. - There is just no easy way to get past 700 with the stretcher. Another way to go over 700 was to get black balls into the far goal. While I saw several robots that appeared to have black ball handling mechanisms - I didn't see anyone try this - nor did I see someonce trying to bring the far goal over the bridge to be loaded up by human players. Many robots had the ability to move both a goal and a big ball simultaneously. In my wild dreams the perfect robot could be able to hold two goals horizontally with 4 big balls ballanced on the bridge with three bots in the endzone in 1 minute - and you still have only 700 points! |
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