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| View Poll Results: Do you plan on harvesting off the floor? | |||
| Yes, we are going to have a harvester. |
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92 | 48.68% |
| No, we're only going to have a shooter. We plan on shooting from the feed slot. |
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21 | 11.11% |
| No, we decided shooting and climbing is more important. |
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43 | 22.75% |
| No, we are only going to climb, and score in auto. |
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10 | 5.29% |
| No, we are a defensive robot, we are only going to block people's shots. |
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3 | 1.59% |
| Yes. We are doing everything. And doing it well (yes, I'm looking at you Michigan) |
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39 | 20.63% |
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Re: Who Is Planning On Harvesting Fribees Off The Floor?
Our team is actively pursuing floor pickup with some decent results. Our intake system will likely be a bit different from others, but prototypes show some great success. The real difficulty in this is working dimensions so this system will fit in the frame perimeter and the 54" cylinder.
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Re: Who Is Planning On Harvesting Fribees Off The Floor?
We have created a system for picking up frisbees that is just as fast our intake last year for basketballs (we attached it to our robot from last year and were picking up frisbee in sight). If there are no frisbees to pick up, we are planning on being able to load our robot through the feeding station.
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first, lolz. second, we have one ![]() we decided day one that we were going to focus on a shooter instead of picking up, mostly because of the smaller frame and some of our thoughts on climbing. |
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Having floor pickup will be critical for those teams that want to seed high. A team with a good harvester and shooter and decent programmers could score up to 54 points in autonomous. That's probably enough to clinch the second-order ranking sort, and possibly win most regional/district matches.
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(This year's ranking system is dictated by auto score after qualification scores) Last edited by rcmolloy : 22-01-2013 at 17:20. |
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Assume you're on an alliance with two robots that can preload and score 3 frisbees each. If you can score 3, pick up the remaining 4 on your side of the field, and score those, you have the potential of starting the match with 78 points. If only you score, you're still at 42. |
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With the smaller dimensions this year, it'll be hardish to pick up 2 at a time with out jamming. Yes, its not too difficult to make your pickup wide enough to pick up 2 if you line up correctly. But to do that and feed it into you hopper without jamming is a different thing. And to do it quickly...
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Just making three every time might hurt you at the Championship, but I don't think it's nearly as bad at the regional level as you guys are making it out to be. |
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That's what happened with our team to. |
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We have all but written off floor pickup, but we have a napkin-sketch contingency should the game change between Palmetto and South Florida.
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With the attempt to at least explore floor harvesting options is a must.
However, the difference between trying to do it vs. deciding not to (focused solely on feeder loading) will save you at least 2 weeks of build season pain. ![]() |
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Early events will be decided by who can play the game consistently while later weeks require you to consistently perform most/all of the game to be successful. Lucky for us we are attending both a week 1 and week 6 event so our strategy requires us to be prepared for both ends of the playing field. ![]() |
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To argue against myself for a minute, after WLT, autonomous score is what determines seeding. You have a hard limit of 18 points unless you floor load. This is really THE reason to consider floor loading this year. Other strategies are all secondary to autonomous mode in this regard. |
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