What will your robot actually do?

[MrJohnston]

Another follow-up on a previous poll... Now that the robots are all bagged and tagged, what specific actions will yours be able to perform in your first competition?

Mark ALL that apply. (In other words, if you can stack four totes, you likely can also stack three, etc. Mark them all.)

[Whippet]

I am disappointed by the lack of votes for the last option.

[Boltman]

How is this a valid poll sample statistically with varied # of answers per team per action?

[DanielPlotas]

How come there are no options regarding Litter? I know many teams will have designed and built mechanisms specifically for Litter, so might as well give them at least a little bit of representation.

[MrJohnston]

Validity with multiple options: Read the results as if you had 25 separate polls, each with a yes/no response.

No Litter options:
I ran out of questions. Only 25 are permitted. Yeah, I wasted one option. However, to introduce litter questions, I would have needed about five more spots... I am debating making another poll just for handling litter.

[Jalerre]

There's no option for "we don't know yet, we're just gonna see what it does when we put it on the field".

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by Boltman

How is this a valid poll sample statistically with varied # of answers per team per action?

Any poll on CD is already invalid statistically.

[wesbass23]

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

Any poll on CD is already invalid statistically.

This has always bothered me about CD polls. If the poll says ten teams can fly, does that mean ten teams can fly? Or is it that ten people from the same team responded that they could fly?

[MrJohnston]

Originally Posted by wesbass23

This has always bothered me about CD polls. If the poll says ten teams can fly, does that mean ten teams can fly? Or is it that ten people from the same team responded that they could fly?

And thus, we can't take any polls here particularly seriously.

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

The only correct answer is "FLY" (or swim)

[BBray_T1296]

Interestingly, I have yet to see a robot in any reveal video or picture that does anything with upside down totes (to be fair: that shows them doing anything), be it flip them or use them as-is. Seems 3 people submitted this response, perhaps they can enlighten us with how exactly they plan to.

[catacon]

Originally Posted by BBray_T1296

Interestingly, I have yet to see a robot in any reveal video or picture that does anything with upside down totes (to be fair: that shows them doing anything), be it flip them or use them as-is. Seems 3 people submitted this response, perhaps they can enlighten us with how exactly they plan to.

Apparently 2053 can use them...

http://youtu.be/qdMyWxod26U?t=2m24s

[Boltman]

Originally Posted by BBray_T1296

Interestingly, I have yet to see a robot in any reveal video or picture that does anything with upside down totes (to be fair: that shows them doing anything), be it flip them or use them as-is. Seems 3 people submitted this response, perhaps they can enlighten us with how exactly they plan to.

We can easily pick up upside down totes and on side or upside down RC's but did not show in reveal as its rare to need to do so.... actually there are plenty of totes the upside down ones are at back so by 2:15 probably won't be needed. Better in terms of efficient scoring to go after right side up ones and have upside down pickup in an as needed basis but not a primary strategy

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by BBray_T1296

Interestingly, I have yet to see a robot in any reveal video or picture that does anything with upside down totes (to be fair: that shows them doing anything), be it flip them or use them as-is. Seems 3 people submitted this response, perhaps they can enlighten us with how exactly they plan to.

While we do not expect to use the totes while inverted, we believe that by week 4 (Bayou regional) we will be able to correct inverted totes against the step. Our front fork has a passive bit of angle aluminum that was originally designed to keep our stack of totes fairly close to vertical. Later (semi-manual) testing demonstrated that we could shove that bit of angle aluminum under an inverted tote against the step and rotate it at least onto its side in one step, possibly righting the tote so that our side-grabber can get to it. We bagged a robot, but have an essentially identical robot that we will be using for programming tuning and driver practice right up until Bayou.

[chamingflicken]

"what will your robot be able to do" and "what will your robot actually do" are two different questions