Statistics on top 20 teams?

[rogerlsmith]

Back when this thread was started, I wasn't sure if you guys would consider 3357 a "top 20" team. We were picked by the #1 alliance of Teams 254 and 233 on Archimedes. With the help of these awesome teams, we won our division.

At any rate, I thought I'd share our statistics.

Programming:

• We programmed in Java
• Our code was fully threaded
• Our autonomous blindly drove and kicked, however we had camera code that aimed. Didn't use it.
• No problems that I know of with WPILib
• We did download the WPILib source, didn't compile it.
• PWM control
• Did not use the classmate for development.

Robot Design:

• We used the gyro and camera
• The vision system was set up to be used both in auton & teleop. We never used it in either case.
• In the vision system code we tweaked the PID values. It seemed to work best with the defaults.
• Drive system was direct drive, tank control.
• 4 Wheels, front 2 AM Plaction, rear 2 slippery plastic from KOP.
• 4 CIM motors, 1 direct drive on each wheel.
• Material was standard KOP C-channel
• Ball control via pinch roller made from pool noodle.
• Energy storage for kicker - pneumatically charged elastic.
• We cut parts with hand tools, and some were machined via CNC mill
• We did not hang.

The Driver Station

• We used the standard dashboard and a modified version (not programmed by us)
• We used an X-Box controller for drive, joystick for all kicking and pneumatics operations.
• USB seemed to work okay.

I did not feel the classmate was fast enough, and may have caused several communication problems on field.

[Pat Fairbank]

I'm not qualified to answer any of the detailed questions on their behalf, but I can share that 1114 used Java this year, and their programmers told me they were happy with it and would use it again.