scouting 2011

[Waffles]

Usually our team has 6 scouters, one per robot.

This year, we're looking to have an addition of someone watching analyts/feeders. <--Believe it or not, some of them will have crazy tossing abilities. XD

Obviously, there's a couple things you can determine ahead of time with pre-match sheets (aka run around the pits and ask teams what their robot does).

(There's a few cons to PRE-MATCH scouting and then competition scouting<-- it let's you know if teams made any major improvements and you get a better indication of how they work if they say they do something and don't... because when it comes down to it, it's what you see on the field.) We also take photos of every single robot at competition.

Here's what we decided for our scouting database as far as criteria goes (we'll probably share our database in the near future):

Prematch:
-Scouter name
-Match #
-Alliance color / Team #
-Starting position
-Human player position

Mini-bot:
-Attempted deployment
-->Location: (lane, mid)
-Successfully scored
-->Blocked?
-Engagement time w/ tower

Autonomous:
-Starting position
-->Stayed on tracking line?

-Ubertube
-->Attempted?
-->Scored?

Teleoperated:
-Placed a second tube on same peg?

-Create a logo?

-Pick up off floor? feeder? both? another robot?

-Alliance role (for majority of match)
-->Supplier, score, defense? (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)

-Placement speed
-->Slow, medium, fast

-Pickup speed
-->Slow, medium, fast

-Drive skill
-->Maneuverability
-->Precision

-Feeder skill
-->Throwing distance

Something like that... our students are still working on creating the database!

Hope this helps!