pic: Inverted CIM 2-Speed Gearbox

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Originally Posted by Knufire

I thought 33 2013's robot used shifitng for improved acceleration with their autoshift code.

You may be right. You likely had more interaction with them that year than I did. The information from my post was what I remember from a conversation I had with one of their members at Championship when I asked how they arrived at their drive train gear ratios (they seemed odd to me, and I wanted to learn more).

I would not be surprised at all to hear that they incorporated autoshifting in 2013, given that they developed a 4-speed autoshifting drive train and code as far back as 2004. However, the logic for gear ratio selection for autoshifting would still probably be consistent with the thought of having good sprint distance for both floor pick up and cycling. Maybe someone from Killer Bees could fill us in with more details?

Originally Posted by JesseK

2013/14 required much less precision in control (so long as the intake made up for margin of error) so School B would have dominated.

Interesting...I would have classified 2014 into School A given the prevalence of defense and the fact that just about every team would be playing D at one point or another. That is to say, sustaining a pushing match for 15+ seconds would be more valuable than shaving a few tenths of a second off of a 10 foot sprint. But like we were saying before, depends on which criteria you're aiming to meet.