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Re: New Team Not Using Camera
I just want to reinforce Matt's comments, and point out that there are a lot of things that your robot can be doing during the autonomous period. If the teams feels that, for any of a number of reasons, using the camera is not something that they want to do this year, that is OK. However, don't just sit there during the autonomous period. Design your robot such that when it starts in one of the two "pocket" starting areas, it just has to swing a simple little arm and knock down one of the two tetras hanging inside the corner goals. While this will only score one point, it is one point that you alliance would otherwise not have. Or make a simple arm to take the one "starting tetra" that your alliance will have and flip it on to the goal sitting next to you when you start the match. This can be done with just one rotational motion, and can give you the easiest three points you are likely to get in the match.
Potentially, 33 points can be scored by an alliance during the autonomous period (two vision tetras stacked on the center goal for three points each and each giving two more three-point bonus tetras in the corners, knocking down the two corner hanging tetras for one point each, and placing the "starting tetra" on the middle goal for three point and making a row with the bonus tetras for ten points, for a total of 33 points). I will be very (pleasantly) surprised if any alliance scores ALL of those points during a match. But it is probably reasonable to expect that 8-15 points will be scored on a fairly regular basis. Given that other threads in this forum have indicated the average expected scores will run in the 45-65 point range, that means that 20-25% of the points may be scored during the autonomous period. If these projections turn out to be true, then sitting there and not doing anything during the autonomous period while your opponent is scoring a like number of points will put you way behind in the match.
-dave
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