TARDEC/Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) Discussion

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by Carolyn_Grace

...the majority of the programming...

all.



The IGVC is an awesome event, with lots of matches to play in a fairly short time, an opportunity to drive the robot in competition when you're not the driver (well, we only had different operators and HP's, same driver), and a time to teach Freshman the funs of changing batteries and bot bottoms.

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by johnr

The only thing i wish they had was some stands for visitors. A little hard to see the field.

I agree. I was there today as a spectator, and finding space to see the field was very difficult to do, especially with the robot traffic. While there probably wasn't much of a way to get stands in there, finding space for that in the future would be a great addition. Thankfully it wasn't jam-packed.

Originally Posted by johnr

2337 seemed to have found a new location to start from and hang too. Did the back-side one hook hang count?

I want to say that it did, but I'm not sure. All of the hangs from today are kind of blurring together. That may have been the one where the robot was either touching the top of the platform, or cleared it by probably a centimeter.

From what I was there for today (about half of the matches), everything looked great. It was a really relaxed and event, with great robots and people (we even had a brief tweetup halfway through the afternoon. It was nice to met Zach and re-meet Andrew after months of talking to them through Twitter and elsewhere). I really wish I could go back up to visit tomorrow!

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by johnr

2337 seemed to have found a new location to start from and hang too. Did the back-side one hook hang count?

Indeed it did. Before states, we had discussed the possibility of playing with 469, and in that discussion the idea of hanging from the near zone came up. Many of us suspected we could do it, but (to my knowledge) it was never tried, game, practice field, anywhere. And now, we find out it works! Yay!

[hektormagee]

If you guys played D in your defense zone like you did on us at championships, it would have been awesome. I still think your hang mechanism/deflector was awesome.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by johnr

2337 seemed to have found a new location to start from and hang too. Did the back-side one hook hang count?

To the best of my knowledge yes it counted.

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by johnr

2337 seemed to have found a new location to start from and hang too. Did the back-side one hook hang count?

It looked like it took some arguing between refs and our drive coach though. We landed on the corner, but I think it was more towards the side then the back, so it was very close. And like everyone else, I believe it was counted.

[IKE]

Make sure you take some time to go check out and talk with the IGVC teams. That is a really cool and tough competition that programmers would especially enjoy.

[kenavt]

Originally Posted by Basel A

Indeed it did. Before states, we had discussed the possibility of playing with 469, and in that discussion the idea of hanging from the near zone came up. Many of us suspected we could do it, but (to my knowledge) it was never tried, game, practice field, anywhere. And now, we find out it works! Yay!

Are there any pictures of this happening?

[Richard McClellan]

trying a different streaming application today...here's the live feed!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/zerotruths/v3

[JackN]

Does anyone have the alliances for the competition?

[kenavt]

I was informed by one of the my teammates that 2337, 2619, and 201 are together for the eliminations. That's all I know.

[kenavt]

Originally Posted by Richard McClellan

trying a different streaming application today...here's the live feed!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/zerotruths/v3

Thank you so much. I think that's only reason why I don't run off screaming all the way to Oakland. Forty miles is a long way.

[apalrd]

Results:

Winners (#1 alliance)
Team 33 (captain)
Team 2137
Team 66

Finalists (#3 alliance)
Team 51 (captain)
Team 469
Team 245

The #1 alliance was undefeated in eliminations.

I didn't write down the alliances, and don't remember the semi and quarter finalists.

[Jim Zondag]

Allainces:
* there was no draft, pairings were auto-assigned.
I may be wrong on the Captain, P1, P2 order, but these were the groupings

1: 33, 2137, 66 (Winners)
2: 910, 503, 548 (SemiFinalists)
3: 51, 469, 245 (Finalists)
4: 2834, 573, 2612 (QF)
5: 2337, 210, 2619 (Semifinalists)
6: 1718, 70, 3401 (QF)
7: 1, 226, 1023 (QF)
8: 830, 397, 494 (QF)

This was a fun event and was great exposure for FIRST.
Outdoor robotics always brings me back to the old days in the EPCOT parking lot. Luckily, the flooding was only minor today
Thanks to Jack Jones and Gail Alpert for all their hard work putting this together.

[IKE]

Originally Posted by Jim Zondag

Thanks to Jack Jones and Gail Alpert for all their hard work putting this together.

I would like to second that. It was really neat to go from tent to tent and check out the IGVC bots, the laptop bots, and then see the first kids having fun as well.