General Alliance Strategy

[Boltman]

We found at our event today, getting totes from the landfill to be just as fast as say getting two high from humans through the chute....both of those tasks our robot can do effectively In the end it sort of depends on design of the robot. If you have some finesse the landfill is not an issue, its mainly adjusting the totes with different orientations to a stack of at least 4 . One advantage of the landfill is its very close to the scoring platform...and plenty of totes. Human player noodle loading into bin can be done fairly easily.

In seeing what our robot/driver can do and other robot capabilities

Each robot in autonomous can get Bins totes and themselves into scoring zone (only rare ones can also stack)
Each robot can get ONE 4-5 stack + bin + noodle
Each robot can complete another 2 or 3 stack (cooperative wall or regular)

That's about it in 2:30 which is simply not a lot of time to stack jumbled totes or get from human.


So some cooperation and efficiency of movements are musts.
Going to be interesting to see whether robots will do their own thing or actively work together this year to obtain top scores.