Multi-Ball Autonomous Club

[AnonymousMarvin]

While this is an extensive list of teams that have a multi ball autonomous, there has been one team with one of the most consistent 2 ball autonomous out there. Team 1987 deserves some recognition for their accomplishments in this department. I was at Colorado, and personally I believe that they had the best 2 ball autonomous there. 1619 and 3310 both deserve recognition for having decent 2 ball autonomous at Colorado as well. I look forward to champs when there will be some many great 2 ball autonomous robots and who to choose who will do 2 ball and who will not. Or everyone may go 1 ball. 1987, 1619, and 4153 all did 1 ball at Colorado during eliminations, and of the 4 matches they played, had 2 perfect autonomous periods. It could be a viable strategy for Alliances to consider.

[78Grimey78]

Team 78 AIR Strike has a two ball working. We Shoot from the line and drop our arm, pick up the second and the drive forward for half a second shoot again and then drive all the way forward.

[fsgond]

Team 135 is able to do 2 ball in the same goal (1 hot, 1 not) and 2 ball from middle (both hot)

[aphelps231]

Team 1318 has a two ball autonomous that scores in the second half of autonomous in the same side of the high goal. The best part about it is that it is about 92.3% accurate, as we have missed less than 10 balls in autonomous, out of 130 total. I figure this because we have use our two ball for about 65 out of 69 matches played, and have hardly missed any. Here is a list of the following teams that I've seen who have multi-ball autonomous modes:
16 (3)
488 (2)
610 (2)
254 (3)
1318 (2)
1986 (2) - I think?
4488 (2)

[orthoravioli]

Please add TechFire 225 to the 2 ball hot goal autonomous club!

Spurred on by the success of 2590 and their awesome 2 ball hot goal auton our lead programmer (Andrew Lobos) programmed a Cheesy Poofs (thanks 254) style two ball hot auton. Dialed it in during practice day. Only missing one shot late in the SF's at the Mid Atlantic Regionals.

[Ted Boucher]

Team 237 developed a 2 ball autonomous after the NEFIRST Groton District Event. Below are links to video of the successful attempts at the Northeastern (Boston) District Event taken by my GoPro mounted to the robot.

Q30 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxhg...-pFhQn9mLke0pd

Q39 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10ep...-pFhQn9mLke0pd

Q45 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKIH...-pFhQn9mLke0pd

Q48 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r2V...Lke0pd&index=6

[SciBorg Dave]

PNW 4061 is part of the 2 ball club.
It also got us in trouble a couple of times when we had a chain jump.
Problem is now fixed.

[SciBorg Dave]

This is the video from PNW Championship.
Match 2 team 4061 2 ball. 4488 also does a 2 ball auto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyGg...wmgAzJAK-O9QNx

[Jacob.B]

3539 has a dedicated 3 ball, in practice matches! We also put up 300 points with them at MSC, great team.

[NotInControl]

Team 2168 - Aluminum Falcons, had a 1-ball hot for their first event (Groton District), had a two ball (1/hot, 1/not) in their second event (RI District), and had multiple varients of a 2 ball/2 hot at NE Championship (we shoot two balls in the same hot goal under 5 seconds from the 18ft line).

We predominently shot the 2-ball auto at NE Champs with pretty good accuracy. We made the second ball 100% of the time, and I think we only missed the 1st ball twice. The first miss was due to an epic block by Redshift goalie bot in Quarter Finals (We scored the second ball around their blocker), and the second 1st ball miss was due to our own misalignment in the first Semifinals match (but we still scored the second ball).

[debbiemusselman]

Team 708 went out in our first match of our Week 1 competition with neither of our alliance partners being confident in their autonomous. So we decided to run our 2 ball hoping it was going to work and it did. Our drive team wasn't too happy about "testing" it in the first match (it was supposed to be kept until eliminations) but they were happy when it worked.

[Jean Tenca]

I've been very impressed with all the multi-ball autos I've seen this year. It certainly has been a very interesting challenge.

As mentioned above, team 4488 Shockwave has 1-ball hot, 2-ball hot, 2-ball non-hot, and 3-ball non-hot modes. I'm very proud of our programming students for pulling this off. They played around with lots of cool stuff in the preseason such as vision tracking and using a gyro for alignment (go back to straight even when kicked or bumped, press a button to turn 90 degrees, etc.). They applied a lot of this to our autonomous this year. The drive team can select what goal to shoot at via a Kinect at the driver station or during the 1-ball routine trigger the fire. During auto the robot uses a gyro and drive encoder to guarantee drive distance and orientation. The video link that SciBorg Dave provided above is a great example of the system in action.

Originally Posted by SciBorg Dave

This is the video from PNW Championship.
Match 2 team 4061 2 ball. 4488 also does a 2 ball auto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyGg...wmgAzJAK-O9QNx

Even with the collision, the robot powers through and executes the routine.

Also, 4061's robot is an amazing work of engineering. Such a cool design. We're excited to go to St. Louis next week and look forward to seeing you guys and so many other great teams competing!

[Joseph Smith]

Originally Posted by Jacob.B

3539 has a dedicated 3 ball, in practice matches! We also put up 300 points with them at MSC, great team.

Not just practice matches- we ran it for almost every one of our qualifiers and through all elimination matches at Troy. We only missed 1 ball in all this time, when a team managed to get a blocker in front of us during auto.

[ATH1RSTYM00SE]

5254 had a 2 ball low goal auto with 100% accuracy at finger lakes

[ehoyla]

1311 has a two ball auton