Human Player: Past, Present and Future

[DarMagi]

I think that the role of the HP should be expanded. Although with the direction of technology and robotics going mroe and more autonomous, this is still a competition and a chance to have some fun and show off what you did in just six weeks. I think by having the 15 second auton mode and a HP that stands at a safe distance and scores for the alliance would b a good challenge. The role of the robot could be to position the goals or scoring zones into an acceptable distance for the HP to score. By incorporating a HP you are giving more people a chance to interact with technology as in the future, humans will have to interact with robots in order to acomplish tasks, and fix broken 'bots, well a HP could work WITH the bot to score and accomplish certain tasks, as well as additional tasks set by the HP and by the 'bot, like by saying, a certain position would be a certain number of points by the HP and a task as in hanging from the chin up bar to be assigned by the robot task, just try to keep the HP a part of the game as it adds an element to the game that is just fun and reliable.

[Barry Bonzack]

My two cents

I like more human involvement to the degree of 2004, but would happily compromise with 2002.

[Ian Curtis]

2004. Both the robot and the human player can (in different ways) score, and more importantly what the robot does CAN counteract what the human does. Some people have said that the 50 point bonus was too much, but when the time came for Einstein, it was no longer too much. You HAD to score balls to win and you HAD to hang to win. It's like football. Two players working on different things, working to achieve the common goal of winning.

BTW, should this be moved to the FRC Game Design forum?