Pre-event scouting--IRI

[Siri]

Team 1640, Sab-BOT-age

Events Attended:
Finger Lakes Regional
Philadelphia Regional (Semifinalists, Xerox Creativity Award)
- PA Robot Challenge (Semifinalists, GP Award)
- Monty Madness (Quaterfinalists)
- Bridgewater Raritan Battle Royale (Semifinalists, Engineering Excellence Award)

Highest Scored Match:
Philadelphia Regional, Qual 55, 9-1, WIN
Philadelphia Regional, Qual 65, 8-4, LOSS

Season Record: 10-12-1

Robot
Does your Robot hang? No, but we usually score enough to make up for it.
Over the bump? quite well, and we've never even come close to tipping.
Through the tunnel? without issue
Drivetrain specs? 4-wheel independent, continuous-turn pivot drive. CIM drive, window motor steering. Crab, snake, and aim (rotate around ball) modes. (Won Xerox Creativity at the Philly Regional)
Special notes? (Hang time, position, driver changes from competitions, preferred field placement):
Can start (and move to!) in any zone.
Very good near-zone scoring and mid-field clearing/scoring (we even have a mirror to see balls hidden by the bump).
Excellent defense, both out-maneuvering and out-pushing (just ask 341). Kicker will clear at least 1 bump if not 2, and we've scored from the far zone.
Our lead driver has driven for 2 years now, and our back-up will have 2 off-season competitions before IRI and drove some last year. Both our coaches have been on the drive team for 4 years (one as a driver for 3).
Our human players have never gotten a penalty. The robot has incurred 2 penalties in 23 matches.

Thanks for assembling all this!

[XaulZan11]

I would also include if the team is using their usual drivers or not. I do not think it is a coincidence that atleast 2 of last year's IRI winners (1625, 68; not sure about 469) used their normal drivers.

[Jeremy Germita]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Writing an app might be harder than something like a simple PDF. Butbut you're going to do my precouting work for me I won't complain.

While I can't argue with the PDF idea, i will say this:
The app is quite simple, actually. It is written in java. It loads an XML of team data. With some changes, It can be used from competition to competition with no problem. Contributions from the CD community are the most reliable source for the data

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I would ask people for hang time and position as well. I can't think of anything else particularly useful.

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

I would also include if the team is using their usual drivers or not. I do not think it is a coincidence that atleast 2 of last year's IRI winners (1625, 68; not sure about 469) used their normal drivers.

Those are good Ideas. I guess that would go under notes.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Well, can't give ya much more than the win loss stuff for every single team. Hope it helps.

[apalrd]

We're going.
All of our win/loss data and match scores are on TBA. But, I'll include them anyways:
Events Attended: 4

Kettering District (week one)
Record: 14-6-0 in entire competition, including elims.
Highest match scores: 9-12 qual 45 WIN, 14-6 Finals3 LOSS
Other notes: GM Industrial Design award.

Troy District (week four)
Record: 14-3-3 in entire competition, including elims.
Highest match scores: 0-16 qual 61 WIN
Other notes: District Chairmans award, Coopertition award.

Michigan State Championship (week five)
Record: 11-4-1 in entire competition, including elims.
Highest match scores: 20-10 qual73 WIN, 26-12 qual25 LOSS (against 469)
Other notes: State Chairmans award.

Archimedes Division:
Record: 13-3-0 in entire competition, including elims.
High scores: 18-7 QF2, WIN, 21-17 Finals2, LOSS

Season totals:
Record: 52-16-4
Highest won match: 20-10 qual73 at MSC
National GM Industrial Design award.

Robot features:
Hangs quickly from vertical pole every time. We only missed one hang in Arch. because we were knocked off by an opponent (red card violation) and we almost hung again.
Deploys from start in 2 seconds (while driver is lining up), lifts in 4 seconds after locked. Not hard to line up - Driver rams the claw into the pole. If it's within the two antennas (about 12" space), it will latch.
Goes over bump smoothly, center wheels float to maintain stability and ensure that no wheel is more than 2" above the ground or bump. Traverses bump at full speed in low gear (aprox. 6 ft/sec). No tunnel, but it can just as easily climb the bump.
Drivetrain: 6wd floating-center, center wheel can be forced down to drop-center by arm. All wheels powered. 2-speed trans, 12ft/sec and 6 ft/sec.
Collector: top-roller pincher type collector, floating assembly to avoid carrying penalties.
Kicker: spring-powered kicker with window-motor recoil, software variable and linearized (it kicks about 35 feet, so I'll say 33 since thats a really nice number. Roller automatically ejects ball when kicking to limit roller's resistance to kick.
We will have the same drivers for IRI.
No camera tracking, but camera display on Dashboard (not enough power to do tracking)

We are changing almost nothing during the summer (OK, we are adding some stickers and changing the tire treads).
Pictures: I dont have any right now, but if you search for Kettering or Michigan State Championship pictures, Daniel Ernst from LasGuerrillas posted a ton of pics from those events, and we are in there.
My favorites from MSC:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniele...7623766907840/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniele...7623766907840/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniele...7623766907840/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniele...7623766907840/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniele...7623766907840/
Oh yeah - we've got some new bot bottoms for IRI.

[Chris is me]

I'm planning on collecting this data anyway, so I'll send you a PM with what I get in order to help you out.

Anyway 1714's info for you. I didn't get to work on the robot or with the team much this year (just Championship scouting) but here's what I got.

Wisconsin Regional (week two)
Record: 9-5-2 (6-2-2)
Highest match scores: 10-4 QF2-2 WIN, 7-9 QF2-1 LOSS
Other notes: Engineering Inspiration, Excellence in Design

Minnesota 10,000 Lakes Regional (week five)
Record: 13-1-2 (7-0-2)
Highest match scores: 13-9 SF1-2 WIN, 6-8 SF1-1 LOSS
Other notes: UL Industrial Safety, Engineering Excellence, Coopertition, Regional Winner

Galileo Division
Record: 8-7-0 (6-4-0)
Highest match scores: 20-0 Qual 132 WIN (hostile 6v0), 19-11 Qual 121 WIN, 0-14 QF4-1 LOSS
Other notes: KCP&B Entrepreneurship Award

Robot:
1714 does not hang.
We can go over the bump or under the tunnel.
6wd, 4 CIMs through AM Gen2 shifting guts with custom lexan sideplates, it goes fast and stuff.
Same drive team for IRI.
Vacuum possession system and spring loaded kicker.