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Originally Posted by traxxasracr1
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I love seeing teams like yours see success and just keep looking higher. The re-design looks smart, and similar to what 5254 did between Champs and IRI.
First of all, I'm not familar with your machine, so how do you plan to play with this robot? Are you a landfill robot or a feeder robot (or both)?
It's always good to look at teams that are better than you and see what they're doing and learn from it, but you also have to know
why they did things the way they did.
What is the exact purpose of each improvement?
It's very easy to say "Well 1114 did it so it must be smart"- except that they had a very specific set of design criteria that you may not have.
Lastly, where are the bottlenecks in your gameplay, and how are you addressing these? For most feeder robots this year, they had something on their robot that was slower than the chute door, so that was their bottleneck, so improving things like elevator speed and using a long ramp didn't help them at all. Similarly, if you're a landfill robot, there's no reason to gear your elevator faster than you can possibly collect a tote. Understanding what the slowest part of your gameplay is this year and figuring out how to improve
that is what continuous improvement is all about in 2015.
Good luck with your re-design and your off-season events!
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17-08-2015, 07:51
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