[FRC Blog] Einstein Report Released

[JamesTerm]

As I read the report, I've been looking for two specific points of interest:

1. Why was the there a significant amount of failures for just the red alliance teams?

2. Special interest in how much vision tracking contributes to network traffic, as we (beta team)... were concerned of overwhelming traffic from this for teams that wanted to process vision via driver station.


I believe point 2 with the network capping addresses this fear for future games... but I would like pursue this with actual numbers (not here in CD obviously). In short I'd want to know if the mjpeg frames cause a significant load in the network traffic, as I want to consider using mp4 compression going forward. I think FIRST action items will address some of this... I'm looking forward to getting these numbers!


As for point 1... this is something I observed while watching the Archimedes elimination matches, and the report also reflects this for the Einstein matches. I've observed that red alliances usually have won (e.g. 90%) this year in our 2 regionals (I wonder how true that is for other regionals). There may be some correlation of this and the higher seed being on the red team. I noticed for Archimedes elimination, an overwhelming victory from the blue alliances.


I don't want to talk about the political stuff but just want to throw some general things out there... 1. Is there a scapegoat political agenda going on? 2. No one can keep a secret as all will be revealed to those who want to know about it... it is just a matter of time. Why? friends tell friends, and those friends tell friends... and well you get the picture... just like FB itself.

(P.S. I do not want to know... I'm an engineer not a politician)