Does anyone have stats about robots falling over?

FIRST General Forum
#1

Posted by bill whitley at 03/24/2001 8:18 PM EST

Student on team #70, Auto City Bandits, from Powers Catholic High School and Kettering University.

Has anyone kept track of how often robots fall over? I’m not looking for how often specific robots fall, but how often a robot falls over in general. Every 3 matches, every 5, 6, 7? Does anybody have data to prove this? What are your guesses based on watching the rounds? I spent too much time in the pit working on the bot to make an educated guess.

Bill
Team #70

#2

Posted by bill whitley at 03/24/2001 8:27 PM EST

Student on team #70, Auto City Bandits, from Powers Catholic High School and Kettering University.

In Reply to: Does anyone have stats about robots falling over?
Posted by bill whitley on 03/24/2001 8:18 PM EST:

: Has anyone kept track of how often robots fall over? I’m not looking for how often specific robots fall, but how often a robot falls over in general. Every 3 matches, every 5, 6, 7? Does anybody have data to prove this? What are your guesses based on watching the rounds? I spent too much time in the pit working on the bot to make an educated guess.

: Bill
: Team #70

#3

Posted by Jay Lundy at 03/24/2001 9:27 PM EST

Student on team #254, The Cheesy Poofs, from Bellarmine College Preparatory and NASA Ames, Cypress Semiconductor, and Unity Care.

In Reply to: Does anyone have stats about robots falling over?
Posted by bill whitley on 03/24/2001 8:18 PM EST:

As far as I can remember, we have never had a robot fall over in one of our matches and we’ve been to 2 regionals. I’ve seen it happen before though so I’m surprised its never happened to one of our partners.

#4

Posted by Jessica Boucher at 03/24/2001 10:01 PM EST

Student on team #237, Sie-H2O-Bots, from Watertown High School and Eastern Awning Systems & The Siemon Company.

In Reply to: Does anyone have stats about robots falling over?
Posted by bill whitley on 03/24/2001 8:18 PM EST:

…that need to be recalculated because of the new regional data, but before this last grouping of regionals, the stats were…

All these stats apply to are non-finals matches where a big ball was sucessfully scored

National average score: 136.23, where anything over 400 is considered an outlier (st. dev of 104.9, if you know what Im talking about)

National average time remaining: .2949 seconds, where anything over a minute is an outlier (st. dev of .254)

Averages, broken up by regionals:

Note: mean score is the first number, one in paranthesis is the st. dev (for those who care)

VCU: Score - 83.3 (40) Time - .29 (.32)
LI: Score - 112.4 (50) Time - .50 (.33)
West Mich: Score - 171.89 (146) Time - .18 (.14)
Lone Star: Score - 130.6 (92) Time - .30 (.26)
NYC: Score - 84.5 (53) Time - .38 (.27)
J&J: Score - 178.8 (141) Time - .27 (.21)
SoCal: Score - 128.7 (79) Time - .8 (.21)
UTC: Score - 143.3 (101) Time - .30 (.23)
KSC: Score - 127.6 (79) Time - .23 (.19)

Disclaimer: I am merely a Statistics student testing what I’ve learned, so if I’m wrong, dont flame me too bad :wink:

More to come later, including the re-calculated averages.

-Jessica B, #237

#5

Posted by Patrick Butler at 03/25/2001 12:41 PM EST

Student on team #122, NASA Knights, from NHGS and NASA Langley Research Center.

In Reply to: I have big ball match stats…
Posted by Jessica Boucher on 03/24/2001 10:01 PM EST:

: VCU: Score - 83.3 (40) Time - .29 (.32)
: LI: Score - 112.4 (50) Time - .50 (.33)
: West Mich: Score - 171.89 (146) Time - .18 (.14)
: Lone Star: Score - 130.6 (92) Time - .30 (.26)
: NYC: Score - 84.5 (53) Time - .38 (.27)
: J&J: Score - 178.8 (141) Time - .27 (.21)
: SoCal: Score - 128.7 (79) Time - .8 (.21)
: UTC: Score - 143.3 (101) Time - .30 (.23)
: KSC: Score - 127.6 (79) Time - .23 (.19)

Are all those times really so low? Those are only a few tenths fo a second? That would seem to mean that very few people are stopping the clock within a multiplier. Most of our matches are done in :59 or 1:29 and rarely over 1:44. . .

Patrik

#6

Posted by Jessica Boucher at 03/25/2001 6:27 PM EST

Student on team #237, Sie-H2O-Bots, from Watertown High School and Eastern Awning Systems & The Siemon Company.

In Reply to: Re: I have big ball match stats…
Posted by Patrick Butler on 03/25/2001 12:41 PM EST:

: Are all those times really so low? Those are only a few tenths fo a second? That would seem to mean that very few people are stopping the clock within a multiplier. Most of our matches are done in :59 or 1:29 and rarely over 1:44. . .

: Patrik

Well, it all depends on what your robot does. These stats are specifically for matches where at least one big ball was scored successfully.

Plus, Im not saying anything about your or any specific team (for now; I have frequency stats on who recieved the ball multiplier that I have to finish).

-Jessica B, #237

#7

Posted by Tom S. at 03/24/2001 10:16 PM EST

Student on team #177, The Bobcats, from South Windsor High School and International Fuel Cells.

In Reply to: Does anyone have stats about robots falling over?
Posted by bill whitley on 03/24/2001 8:18 PM EST:

In 2 (or 3, not sure) of our 8 qualifying rounds at UTC robots fell over on the ramp…

I don’t think i saw any robots fall over during the finals at UTC… someone correct me if i’m wrong though.

Tom Schindler
Team 177

: Has anyone kept track of how often robots fall over? I’m not looking for how often specific robots fall, but how often a robot falls over in general. Every 3 matches, every 5, 6, 7? Does anybody have data to prove this? What are your guesses based on watching the rounds? I spent too much time in the pit working on the bot to make an educated guess.

: Bill
: Team #70

#8

Posted by Erica Schindler at 03/24/2001 10:40 PM EST

Other on team #177, Bobcat Robotics, from South Windsor High School and International Fuel Cells/ ONSI Corporation.

In Reply to: Re: Does anyone have stats about robots falling over?
Posted by Tom S. on 03/24/2001 10:16 PM EST:

: In 2 (or 3, not sure) of our 8 qualifying rounds at UTC robots fell over on the ramp…

: I don’t think i saw any robots fall over during the finals at UTC… someone correct me if i’m wrong though.

: Tom Schindler
: Team 177

ha ha tom, very funny…you have such sick humor… :slight_smile:

for those of you who are confused…177 took a spill during the finals of UTC :wink: although some would like to forget it…

~Erica Schindler
alumna from 177, and also Tom’s sister…now wait a few minutes while i use the privilage of being home on spring break to go talk to that boy!!!

#9

Posted by Tom S. at 03/24/2001 11:03 PM EST

Student on team #177, The Bobcats, from South Windsor High School and International Fuel Cells.

In Reply to: Re: Does anyone have stats about robots falling over?
Posted by Erica Schindler on 03/24/2001 10:40 PM EST:

Well, my sister is forgetting the fact that we were still in the endzone :slight_smile: we landed on a ball outside of the playing field… no part of our bot was touching the ground… some call it luck, i call it skill… i planned it that way… actually i didn’t realize we were falling until the power was cut. :slight_smile:

We may have “fallen Over” but we did not block the bridge or cause any harm to our allies :slight_smile:

Tom Schindler
Team 177 - The Bobcats

: : In 2 (or 3, not sure) of our 8 qualifying rounds at UTC robots fell over on the ramp…

: : I don’t think i saw any robots fall over during the finals at UTC… someone correct me if i’m wrong though.

: : Tom Schindler
: : Team 177

:
: ha ha tom, very funny…you have such sick humor… :slight_smile:

: for those of you who are confused…177 took a spill during the finals of UTC :wink: although some would like to forget it…

: ~Erica Schindler
: alumna from 177, and also Tom’s sister…now wait a few minutes while i use the privilage of being home on spring break to go talk to that boy!!!

#10