Human Interaction.

[ERA4640]

Does anyone plan on revolving their strategies around human interaction such as manually throwing disks into the goal???

[jyh947]

Maybe.

[wilsonbiggs]

Our team isn't, although that doesn't seem like a terrible idea. Especially if you can get your school's Ultimate team to help out...

[Physicguy]

Originally Posted by wilsonbiggs

Our team isn't, although that doesn't seem like a terrible idea. Especially if you can get your school's Ultimate team to help out...

I wish that we had a Ultimate frisbee team... We are not implementing the human interaction as much this year, maybe someone who feeds disks to our robot.

[Jeffy]

We will have skilled human interaction. The speed at which we are hoping the human player to feed through the slot is going to take a bit of practice.

[matthewdenny]

Quite honestly I'm not a fan of the human interaction factor of the games. It doesn't inspire knowledge of science or technology, it's not part of building a robot, it has noting to do with teamwork or cooperation. Last year the chances of a full court basketball shot were remote but this year I think some matches are going to be decided because one team has an Ultimate player with a good arm and the other doesn't. I think that's unfortunate. It does add some excitement, but isn't robots competing exciting already?

[matthewdenny]

This isn't to say we aren;t going to have someone practice, because to not do so would be silly.

[2348humanplayer]

Perhaps. I'm the coach for our team, and we plan to have our robot score in the high in auto, do some shooting, then climb all the way up to score 30 in around the last 30-45 seconds, and dump some player discs in the top goal. Throwing discs from human players could work for a few points, plus it'll look hilarious

[mgerber]

I don't think I'm alone in saying no team should base any substantial part of their strategy around their human player. Sure, there are bound to be some games where a hail mary hammer throw will win the match, but I think there will be a lot more games later in the season where there won't be any more frisbees left to throw. Human player may be doing even less than last year, because dropping fisbees through a slot will be even less involved than the ball bouncing (which is more difficult than it looks )