Go to Post When mentors and students battle it's the team that loses. - Koko Ed [more]
Home
Go Back   Chief Delphi > Other > Televised Robotics
CD-Media   CD-Spy  
portal register members calendar search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read FAQ rules

 
 
 
Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #14   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 06-07-2003, 10:57
patrickrd's Avatar
patrickrd patrickrd is offline
Registered User
AKA: Patrick Dingle
no team
Team Role: Engineer
 
Join Date: May 2001
Rookie Year: 1999
Location: Medford, MA
Posts: 349
patrickrd is a splendid one to beholdpatrickrd is a splendid one to beholdpatrickrd is a splendid one to beholdpatrickrd is a splendid one to beholdpatrickrd is a splendid one to beholdpatrickrd is a splendid one to beholdpatrickrd is a splendid one to behold
Send a message via AIM to patrickrd
Update 06.07.2003 04:30pm

Last night I got a good 10+ hours of sleep, so am feeling much better rested. On to today's news, which is only a brief update since many people on our team are trying to get on the laptops to use internet.

At 11am this morning we had our third game. Our opponents today were the Canuks from Canada. We began our game at half speed (a cautionary measure against slow opponents), and scored a fairly quick goal. However, the beginning minutes were very shaky. Our robots did not seem to be moving very smoothly or moving how our AI should command them to. For example, our robot would have possesion of the ball and a clear path to advance upfield, but would sit dribbling the ball and do nothing for a few seconds before deciding to move. Further, a bizarre play off a free kick nearly gave up a goal to the Canuks. During a quick timeout, the AI team disabled a mode they were experimenting with, and we upped our gains to full speed (although we have even a faster "turbo" speed we can use in the future). After the swithes, our robots worked very well. Although the performance of the Canuks was the best we have competed against yet, it was still not among the competition's best, and we again cruised to a 10-0 victory. This third victory guarantees that we advance to the second round of competition, with at least 2nd seed in our new round robin group. I should mention, since we are winning by 10 goals often, that the rules state the game ends early after a 10 point advantage, and that is why all our scores are by 10.

Game 3:
Big Red 10, Canuks 0

Our next game is not until tomorrow at six pm, thus there is much time to prepare for our next opponent. We will need it! Tomorrow we play the last team we have not yet played in our round robin division, the RoboRoos from Australia. The RoboRoos have also cruised to 10-0 victories against the same three opponents, and we consider them to be among the best teams at the competition. Although they are not quite as fast as us, they have a slightly more powerful kick and can also dribble the ball reasonably well. Their AI appears to be very similar to ours, but we never know what kind of plays they will try against us. It should be a very good test of our system, and our first opportunity to get a good look at how good we are this year. Best case, our system works great and we can outperform and outmaneuver them, and have another strong win. On the other hand, if we have holes in our strategy that we haven't anticipated, and we are not able to get around their strong defense, we could be defeated by any margin. A loss would be embarassing and disappointing, but on the plus side, we would learn exactly what our holes are and we would have time to fix them. Learning about them in the second round or elimination matches would be much worse. In any case, I'm optimistic, but of course we have to respect and expect the very best of each and every opponent.

And last night I again had pizza, since we were at a restaurant that had nothing but pizza. They kept on screwing up orders, but the place was great. They kept on bringing out all sorts of appetizers. We all only finished about half of the food, and were completely stuffed. And then of course they served excellent iced cream for desert. And then I slept from 10pm until about 8:30 this morning.

Ok, that's it for my update, which I guess was longer than I was planning. Hopefully Dave is not too upset for me using his computer for too long. I put on a picture of the restaurant last night... sorry I'm not in it, I have some of me on Dave's camera but haven't gotten copies of them yet.

- Patrick
Attached Thumbnails
Click image for larger version

Name:	dsc00026a.jpg
Views:	145
Size:	87.7 KB
ID:	1461  
__________________
Systems Engineer - Kiva Systems, Woburn MA
Alumni, Former Mechanical Team Leader - Cornell University Robocup - 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 World Champions
Founder - Team 639 - Ithaca High School / Cornell University
Alumni - Team 190 - Mass Academy / WPI
Reply With Quote
 


Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
The Science Channel to broadcast FIRST documentary Andy Baker General Forum 49 01-03-2004 14:03
Rules on making spare parts fyi DougHogg General Forum 0 02-04-2003 16:18


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 19:03.

The Chief Delphi Forums are sponsored by Innovation First International, Inc.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2017, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © Chief Delphi