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| Yes, we only use the Chute |
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3 | 3.61% |
| Yes, we use the Chute and can get tubes another way |
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5 | 6.02% |
| Yes, we can use the Chute but we do not like to |
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6 | 7.23% |
| No, we don't use the Chute |
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69 | 83.13% |
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Who uses the Chute?
I was wondering who uses the chute? My team uses it exclusively and we were some what successful with it (when the tubes weren't to large).
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Re: Who uses the Chute?
At the Pacific NorthWest Regional, I only saw one team (1983) that specifically used the chute. They could quickly go up to the chute, grab a tube and score it on the middle level. It seemed pretty effective.
Also, close to the same subject. I've seen one team feed tubes to thier robot over the alliance station wall. |
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Re: Who uses the Chute?
We have the capability, but prefer the floor since doesn't require precise positioning of the arm in three dimensional space. Literally, for us to pickup off the floor all the arm driver has to do is lower the elbow as low as it goes, lower the wrist until the bottom of the gripper hits our bumper, and open the gripper. No precision required.
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Re: Who uses the Chute?
Team 354 was the only team to use the chute. In fact that was teh only way they fed their bot and I think it cut the effectiveness of their bot in half. It is just a slow way to load the bot and easy to defend. They had a tremendous manipulator and drivetrain. They should think about changing their strategy and pick up the tubes from the floor instead.
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Re: Who uses the Chute?
Team 70 and 494 were "Making Toast" most of the time at GLR. We found it easier than grabbing from the floor, BUT it did tick off a few more seconds off the clock.
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Re: Who uses the Chute?
IIRC 1519 exclusively used the chute but were very slow at it so there was a minimum of tubes they could get per match
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Re: Who uses the Chute?
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Thanks teams 340 and 1518. but thanks for the idea |
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Re: Who uses the Chute?
We're planning on possibly using the chute because we can't pick tubes off the floor, although our first priority is the wall.
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Re: Who uses the Chute?
well it seemed to me that at the wisconsin regionals most teams that could score were either passing over the wall or throwing them over so they could pick off the ground.
i think i saw one team use the chute to get one right next to the wall so that they could pick up easier than raise their arm to above the wall. |
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Re: Who uses the Chute?
We can use the chute, but we prefer to toss tubes over the top. In the eliminations, that worked really well.
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Re: Who uses the Chute?
Did any teams' autonomous modes set them up in front of the chute for a quick first ringer?
My team, 1015 was incapable of grabbing "toast". We only grabbed from the floor (though grabbing from above the wall would have been doable, but would also have been a less than ideal grip on the ringer. |
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Re: Who uses the Chute?
i saw the Martian twins grab toast a fair amount, and i also saw team FIRE, 322 doing it a fair amount. Team 1, the Juggernauts, liked doing it too, but i think that most teams found that if they could reach the floor, that was the best way to pick up tubes.
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Re: Who uses the Chute?
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Re: Who uses the Chute?
1596 uses the chute exclusively. Telescoping vertical arm with cool hand-like gripper with floppy fingers that "grabbed" the tubes
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