Karthik & 1114: Effective FIRST Strategies 2016 - Championship Conference

[Rivet Man]

Originally Posted by marccenter

Karthik,

One element of your strategic presentation discusses using a single manipulator with an additional element to complete two game tasks versus the use of dual manipulators. (Multi-functionality, consolidation).

For the 3548 robot, and others, we modified our front ball. intake to add wheels that are used to raise the portculllis. The simple addition of 4 inch AM white wheels allows us to raise the portcullis in both teleOp and Auton. Other robots may have needed to add more complicated end effectors to raise the portcullis during teleOP and struggled to perform well during Autonomous period.

I think Karthik's presentation uses a much older example for this function and can be updated for this years game, Stronghold

Hi marccenter,

Although I've never watched one of Karthik's presentations I have heard about them!

I think that putting in the example that you generously provided about your own team's experience would help the audience lock onto the topic at hand. Do you have any video of this mechanism in action? I tried searching thebluealliance for it but had a bit of a tough time finding this device opening the Portcullis.

Again, always love to see how engaged people are! I'll be riveted to my screen later tonight when I get around to watching one of Karthik's old videos (These are posted on Youtube, right?).

Best Regards,
RM

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Rivet Man

Hi marccenter,

Although I've never watched one of Karthik's presentations I have heard about them!

I think that putting in the example that you generously provided about your own team's experience would help the audience lock onto the topic at hand. Do you have any video of this mechanism in action? I tried searching thebluealliance for it but had a bit of a tough time finding this device opening the Portcullis.

Again, always love to see how engaged people are! I'll be riveted to my screen later tonight when I get around to watching one of Karthik's old videos (These are posted on Youtube, right?).

Best Regards,
RM

Rivetman,

It'd be a great boost to the first community for you to host a workshop on fastening methods.

What do you think?

[PayneTrain]

I can't wait to miss this when we decide to attempt a rebuild at champs again!!!

We'll get people there.

[synth3tk]

With the possibility of my school bringing back the team, I'm definitely looking forward to this!

If one of the fields goes into sheer chaos and massive riots due to a missing field queuer, you'll know why.

[dv/dt]

Topic of interest:
How did Tower Capture influence strategy decisions related to the choice of high cycles vs high points?
My interest is related to a medium resource team. We chose to go with high cycles into the low goal (>6) rather than low cycles into the high goal (<=3) to increase chances at tower capture. I'm not sure this was a good strategy for our team.
Thanks!

[Edxu]

In 2013, I had no real idea as to what division I wanted to focus my efforts on, but basically due to this conference and seeing how it affected a team's performance, I was inspired to dedicate my time to my team's Strategy division, and I've never regretted it.

I highly recommend going to this conference, as it will definitely improve the performance of your team at competition, no matter what kind of robot you're competing with.

[Rivet Man]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Rivetman,

It'd be a great boost to the first community for you to host a workshop on fastening methods.

What do you think?

Hi AdamHeard,

While I would like to share my knowledge of fastening methods with the community there are two issues with me doing one of these workshops.

1) I have never actually been on a FIRST team! I'm sure there are a number of intricacies that I haven't considered.
2) Although I'm trying to make my way out to World Championships I don't know if I can take the time off to make the drive!

Another issue (Issue "C" - as it's not part of my main list I like to change from numbers to letters, helps me remember that I sorta changed pace!) is that a talk on fasteners can't really just be on fasteners! Fasteners are just the glue (or rivets!) that hold everything together! I wouldn't know where to begin there's so much material to tie together (No pun intended).

Thank you for the request though AdamHeard! I had no idea that the community would be so interested in what I know, consider me flattered!

Best Regards,
RM

[itsjustjon]

Originally Posted by ConnorTheCoch

Karthik, you are my idol. You are legendary and this conference is a great idea. Kudos.

This guy xD

[marccenter]

Originally Posted by Rivet Man

Hi marccenter,

Although I've never watched one of Karthik's presentations I have heard about them!

I think that putting in the example that you generously provided about your own team's experience would help the audience lock onto the topic at hand. Do you have any video of this mechanism in action? I tried searching thebluealliance for it but had a bit of a tough time finding this device opening the Portcullis.

Again, always love to see how engaged people are! I'll be riveted to my screen later tonight when I get around to watching one of Karthik's old videos (These are posted on Youtube, right?).

Best Regards,
RM

Here's an example from the FiM Southfield district event during autonomous in match 63. The large, 4 inch wheels added to the ball intake mechanism are used to raise the portcullis during auton period.

http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2016misou_qm63

[Brutick]

Never had a chance to catch one of these in person, but they're always great and informative! Hoping to see a live stream or a video afterwards

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by marccenter

Here's an example from the FiM Southfield district event during autonomous in match 63. The large, 4 inch wheels added to the ball intake mechanism are used to raise the portcullis during auton period.

http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2016misou_qm63

I don't have a video example (yet? maybe when North Bay posts their archives) but we discovered that our robot could use our shooter to raise the portcullis, as well as lower the cheval de frise. It could in theory, with some minor rework, shoot high goals. We tried to make high goals work with it as-is, but it was too inconsistent for us to do in real matches because we had no intermediate stop between up and down.

Here's a picture of our robot.