pic: 1038 Nails auton in the Pitt eliminations

[Adam Freeman]

Very nice job. We have been able to score on the lower and middle rows, and at different starting positions but we have not put a keeper on the top row yet.

Are you using the camera? If so, does the keeper obstruct its view when it is tracking?

[Maggie27]

Your robot was perfect.

[Dan 1038]

Originally Posted by Adam Freeman

Very nice job. We have been able to score on the lower and middle rows, and at different starting positions but we have not put a keeper on the top row yet.

Are you using the camera? If so, does the keeper obstruct its view when it is tracking?

I'll leave it to one of our programmers to reply to specifics on the auton program, but we do use the camera to aquire the target (we never know which one it will like best) along with some dead reckoning logic and arm control including gear tooth sensors. We target the top row, as it moves the least. We were very successful in practice rounds (6 of 8), not so much in the "real matches". We think the floor condition may have affected our performance, but we were very close when we missed, ie tubes barely bouncing off the rack. We'll see what happens in Buckeye...

Thanks to all for the nice comments!

[DarthXar]

Originally Posted by Dan 1038

I'll leave it to one of our programmers to reply to specifics on the auton program, but we do use the camera to aquire the target (we never know which one it will like best) along with some dead reckoning logic and arm control including gear tooth sensors. We target the top row, as it moves the least. We were very successful in practice rounds (6 of 8), not so much in the "real matches". We think the floor condition may have affected our performance, but we were very close when we missed, ie tubes barely bouncing off the rack. We'll see what happens in Buckeye...

Thanks to all for the nice comments!

As an addition, I'm pretty sure our AMAZING auton coder has two-light code as well.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by Adam Freeman

Very nice job. We have been able to score on the lower and middle rows, and at different starting positions but we have not put a keeper on the top row yet.

Are you using the camera? If so, does the keeper obstruct its view when it is tracking?

ALong with what Dan said, our arm grabs the tube moves up to clear the camera view in order for it to track the light.

[Dan 1038]

For those interested, I posted a pic of our starting position and basic auton sequence at: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/27725

[Mr MOE]

Originally Posted by Dan 1038

For those interested, I posted a pic of our starting position and basic auton sequence at: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/27725

Dan.

Great job!!! MOE missed competing with you guys so far this year. Maybe we will get a chance at the Championship.

Best of luck at Buckeye!

[AdamHeard]

Wow... that looks very, very similar to our robot...

[Dan 1038]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Wow... that looks very, very similar to our robot...

Can you post a pic of yours? We are best on the top, though we can hang anywhere easily, I would love to see your robot and discuss your strategy!

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Dan 1038

Can you post a pic of yours? We are best on the top, though we can hang anywhere easily, I would love to see your robot and discuss your strategy!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/tags/frc294

We seem to be most effective on the middle goal, although all three work pretty well.

[Dan 1038]

Wow, very similar desgn - Yours is a little more robust in the arms, we were going for a lower center of gravity, which has worked well. How many gripper details on the arms did you guys try and what did you end up with? We went through a bunch of details on the arms before we went back to basics... Good looking robot!

[nsr]

That is very impressive. Congrats

[jgannon]

This robot owns. Watch out, Einstein.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Dan 1038

Wow, very similar desgn - Yours is a little more robust in the arms, we were going for a lower center of gravity, which has worked well. How many gripper details on the arms did you guys try and what did you end up with? We went through a bunch of details on the arms before we went back to basics... Good looking robot!

We tried having a servo/globe powered tube rotation at the end... Proved rather useless and complicated... We just went back to tubing with foam covered by nonstick. The arm appears rather heavy, but it is almost all 1/16 wall and the entire weight is under 15 lbs for the arm.

I hope we end up in the same division at nationals... that would be rather interesting.

[Dan 1038]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

I hope we end up in the same division at nationals... that would be rather interesting.

How have you guys done in regionals? How many can you put up in a match? We had a good chance for 8 around the top in the eliminations in Pitt, but we missed the auton and dropped one with very little time on the clock - so we only got 6. Teams 222 and 48 played awesome defense, we didn't get touched that whole match. If we get the right alliance together to play defense for us again, I have little doubt we can complete a ring...