7-Shot Autonomous Club

[Alpha Beta]

Originally Posted by Nemo

This one caused me to go back and reread the rules. This brings to mind some crazy possibilities for the Championship.

If you thought two alliances racing to tip the bridge in auto was exciting, wait until they play autonomous chicken on the center line.

[Anupam Goli]

624 didn't get 7, but they did 5 consistently and had plans for 7 during peachtree.

During eliminations, 2415 was able to get 6 discs during autonomous, which was the maximum possible for them since they started their robot inside the pyramid and in front of the line.

[Lil' Lavery]

Can anyone who attended TCNJ confirm if 2590 pulled it off there? They came close at Hatboro-Horsham, but I don't know if they ever hit all 7.

[Gaurav27]

Originally Posted by Racer26

2056's 7 wasn't terribly reliable. At least not at GTR-E. Usually only good for 5 or 6 (their pickup is a single disc wide that masquerades as being able to deal with 2).

1241 has a fairly reliable 5 disk auto.

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

I agree that 2056's wasn't exactly perfect. They're main issue, like you said, was that they are only suppose to pick up one at a time. Though they did get it enough for me to consider it pretty good. I think they could add something on their robot though they would help in collecting all the discs, like a funnel, they purposely get the right or left discs first, then the second hits the angled funnel and funnels into their robot. I have also seen them collect discs on the way back to the pyramid to shoot.
I think that they would have been working on that during their break and come to Waterloo this weekend ready to always get 7.

1241 only got their auto working for Saturday, and maybe the later matches in Friday, but yes they did seem to get the 2 pretty constantly. If you didn't see their robot in auto, they shoot 3 discs from middle of pyramid (back) and then drive backwards to the middle of the field and grab 2 from the center-line, drive back and shoot 2 more.

I can't wait to see how competitive Waterloo is this weekend with all the great robots attending.

Yeah, thankfully we were able to get the 5 disc working on Saturday morning at GTR-E.

I agree, 2056 will probably have the 7 disc working this coming weekend at Waterloo.

I can't deny but say we're pushing for 7 as well.

Both 987 and 1986 are two of the most efficient robots I've seen that conduct a 7 disc autonomous. Great work by these teams!

[JoshPFalk]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Can anyone who attended TCNJ confirm if 2590 pulled it off there? They came close at Hatboro-Horsham, but I don't know if they ever hit all 7.

We made 6 multiple times but were never able to make all 7 discs.

[Dancin103]

Originally Posted by JoshPFalk

We made 6 multiple times but were never able to make all 7 discs.

2590 was picking up 7 but only hitting 6, and toward the end they would motion to get 7 but their pickup wasn't gong down... Not sure what happened. And our (103)'s 7 didn't turn at the right angle - testing carpet was a little smoother than the playing field.

[cjl2625]

9? How is that even possible in 15 seconds; that would require 2 harvesting trips!

We can't do 7, and since our harvester isn't really double-frisbee wide, it's kinda hard to pick up multiple frisbees in atutonomous.
But we did manage to have a 4 disk autonomous, and occasionally it would scoop up an extra 5th.
Maybe we could have tried getting the ones in front of the pyramid or going for the centerline... but still, the 4 disk auto was good enough to get us the highest autonomous score in the CT regionals.

[mwmac]

Please add 2122 to the list. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ywq...ature=youtu.be

[engunneer]

Originally Posted by cjl2625

9? How is that even possible in 15 seconds; that would require 2 harvesting trips!

Think outside the box - don't break your auto into separate harvest and shoot stages. Shoot from the middle line while driving slowly forward and harvesting as you go. Then you don't have to care about how many are in your bot because they just come out as fast as they go in.

[rlowe61]

Originally Posted by Wing

624 didn't get 7, but they did 5 consistently and had plans for 7 during peachtree.

During eliminations, 2415 was able to get 6 discs during autonomous, which was the maximum possible for them since they started their robot inside the pyramid and in front of the line.

624 has gotten a couple of 7 disk on the practice field, but as of yet to hit in a match. Hopefully we can join this group while at Alamo. It is all about the pick-up.
About getting 9, my opinion, it will happen, it's all a matter of timing. Is there enough time, "yes with a quick bot that is accurate". If someone has the ability to pick up off both ends (forward and backwards) without requiring a 180 spin to pick up and another to shoot, 9 is not out of the realm of possibilities. Can 1986 modify their current/build a scoop for the back-end by Worlds? That is the question.

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by JesseK

987 does a 7-disc mid-field autonomous. This trumps them all.

I think you will see teams shoot their three discs and drive back to the center line just to push discs around or block 987. I know I would if I didn't have a ground pickup.

[themccannman]

So far from what I've seen 1986 and 987 have the best, most consistent autonomous routines. 254 mentioned that they had a plan to do a 9 shot autonomous, however I haven't seen that happen yet. We've been able to pick up and shoot 5 all but one time however our shooter issues at CVR didn't help with the scoring, if all goes well though we should be consistently getting either a 5 or 7 shot auto at the Sacramento regional.

[Travis Covington]

Originally Posted by themccannman

So far from what I've seen 1986 and 987 have the best, most consistent autonomous routines. 254 mentioned that they had a plan to do a 9 shot autonomous, however I haven't seen that happen yet. We've been able to pick up and shoot 5 all but one time however our shooter issues at CVR didn't help with the scoring, if all goes well though we should be consistently getting either a 5 or 7 shot auto at the Sacramento regional.

We did? Cool. I'd like to see that too.

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by Travis Covington

We did? Cool. I'd like to see that too.

To be fair...

Though it was an allusion that was also a "that'd be cool to see", which is basically as good as a "the Poofs said..." to CDenizens. That it's now impossible makes me think of a sad panda face

[Travis Covington]

Originally Posted by JesseK

To be fair...

Though it was an allusion that was also a "that'd be cool to see", which is basically as good as a "the Poofs said..." to CDenizens.

If you say so...

We have a 7 disc that works on our practice field (and worked great before SD, too), but some differences in the two robots caused it to not work well at SD.