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However, I was thinking about the concern you expressed for the top-tier canburglars. And I really do expect to see the best of them facing off at Einstein (the much-better-than-OK corral) to see who is quickest on the autonomous draw. The teams that get there will be quite experienced at developing effective, reliable, AND safe robots. ![]() |
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In Semifinal 3 at the Silicon Valley Regional, part of 4486's canburglar caught onto a canburglar 'net' of 2485 on the opposing alliance and tossed it up into the air, before it landed next to the alliance station wall on the field. While it was wild to watch, it wouldn't have been too safe if it had flown off in a different direction and landed outside of the field.
It occurs at 2:10:36 here: http://new.livestream.com/accounts/1...events/3935043 Last edited by Hallry : 04-04-2015 at 18:10. |
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Seeing more safe canburglars at Bedford has eased my concern a little bit.
My guess is that can burglars will get about 20% faster by the end of the season, and I think this can be accomplished with little to no stored energy, making them much safer than the giant hair-trigger mousetraps I was worried about before. |
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They will be much faster than that, teams will be pushing the limits of what is possible with the strength of materials available to us.
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This is a dangerous challenge. The GDC designed it to be an incredibly dangerous challenge. (I ask myself again, why?) Teams that intend to go head-to-head on Einstein have exactly zero reason to stop at ~20% faster, and they certainly have no reason not to store energy. This is essentially an arms race; the public time to beat is already like 0.25s. Beyond that, it's mostly a hidden war, but I've inspected (and reffed next to) several stored energy grabbers thus far. |
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This has been covered countless times already, all you have to do is get to the hole first. It's not hard to stop the other team once you're there.
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It remains to be seen what champs will look like. |
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I can confirm that if the pivot is below about 200 mm [~7.9 in], no telescoping or other extending is needed to reach the lid of the can. But it does require a doglegged arm to avoid hitting the landfill totes.
Grabbing the can handles would be faster, but I feel that the gap you have to hit between the lid and the handle is probably smaller than the placement tolerance of the containers on the step. |
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Virtually all grabbers I've seen deliberately adjust to the actual positions of the Cans in front of them. (They're not shooting blind into the placement tolerances.)
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