pic: Robostangs 548's 2014 Robot

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by mikemat

Right now our drum is at a precarious balance between winch speed and shooting power. I know we can shoot from beyond 20 feet, but at that point we start to loose consistency, so we set our long shot at the line. Also, we are being limited by ball inflation because of our heated build area and unheated practice facility.

That makes sense. We have issues much farther as well, though we've been working on tuning that.

We've been having issues with consistency in our practice area too, being in a warehouse with doors opening and closing and breezes all over the place, and found that our competition bot seemed to be significantly more accurate (when working) than our practice bot.

[mikemat]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

That makes sense. We have issues much farther as well, though we've been working on tuning that.

We've been having issues with consistency in our practice area too, being in a warehouse with doors opening and closing and breezes all over the place, and found that our competition bot seemed to be significantly more accurate (when working) than our practice bot.

IMO the biggest befit of the extra power is passing over the truss. We can get it to the HP across most of the field with a nice catchable ark. It also flattens our trajectory so we have a larger margin of error in our shoot points. The ball inflation thing has really been annoying our programers and their auton, but we are hoping to be able to tune in our 2 ball for Howell

[stuart2054]

Our original plan was to shoot from the white zone in auto but we gave up on that at 2771's practice field after we seen only 60% accuracy with our shooter but that seems to be our own design flaw as we seen 2767 consistently do it. We still throw it very hard and could throw over to the truss to the human well but the big arch shot with lower power would be better for a catching robot.