Ball Trajectory Planning

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by lcoreyl

The engineer in me says 2 things:
1) speed is a factor in how much drag comes into play. I don't think you're going to be approaching baseball speeds unless you're going for the robot that parks in the alley, receives the pass and chucks it full court (if you are--bravo!).
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I agree that teams won't be approaching baseball speeds but a baseball is also significantly more dense than the basketball in the KOP.

I don't have any math to back myself up but 6 years of playing dodgeball with 6-8 year old kids at a summer camp tells me that even at low speeds drag effects the trajectory of a foam ball. I am sure that people involved in 2006 would back up this anecdotal evidence.