One of the few times we successfully capped in autonomous. The tube BARELY got on. Overall we got 3 on in auto at the NJ regional-including one that fell and bounced on. Two others were removed by the refs because they were hanging on the stingers!! At NJ the goal was shifted substantially every round and juggernauts were common.
Nice job, did you use the camera, or were you to a juggernaught?
we used a camera and sonic sencors
One of the things I noticed throughout NJ that was almost aggravating to me was how many teams didn’t drop their keepers at the end of autonomous, regardless of where they were. Not only is it technically a rule that you have to drop your keeper, but there were many times where if teams had just dropped their keeper, it may have just landed on the spider leg and counted. There was, in fact, one instance where 375 had their keeper DIRECTLY ABOVE the spider foot, but didn’t release it. When teleoperated began, they released their keeper before moving. It landed on the spider leg, and the match had to be restarted because the keeper shouldn’t have counted. This is my plea to teams: please, DROP YOUR KEEPERS at the end of autonomous- you may just score them.
Technically, the rule is that if the tube is touching the spider leg and if it would be unsupported by the robot and still be touching the leg, then it was considered scored. So you dont have to let go of the tube if it is supported by the spiderleg in any way.
At least in 375’s case (I can’t be sure of others), they had their keeper held RIGHT ABOVE but NOT touching the spider leg- just sitting over it. If they had dropped it, it would’ve counted.
The head ref did an “example” of what was considered scored (At GLR). He said that if the top of the hole was touching the leg then it was counted. I dont know about other regionals but this seems to be a good idea.
Team Voltage’s software group made that decision early on when we read the rules. Why should the drive team have to remember to drop the keeper first? We built a 14 second timer into autonomous to trigger the “score” sequence regardless of where we thought we were. At least it drops the keeper.
Turns out we didn’t need it much though. We scored 6 of 8 attempts at our “sweet spot” autonomous. Our finals autonomous was brand new on Saturday morning to make us more compatible with the minor rack rotations and being allied with an autonomous-capable partner. If you watch the finals from the Florida Regional, you’ll see just how close we came for our first ever executions!
Lynn (D) - Team Voltage Software and Coach
Team Voltage’s software group made that decision early on when we read the rules. Why should the drive team have to remember to drop the keeper first? We built a 14 second timer into autonomous to trigger the “score” sequence regardless of where we thought we were. At least it drops the keeper.
Turns out we didn’t need it much though. We scored 6 of 8 attempts at our “sweet spot” autonomous. Our finals autonomous was brand new on Saturday morning to make us more compatible with the minor rack rotations and being allied with an autonomous-capable partner. If you watch the finals from the Florida Regional, you’ll see just how close we came for our first ever executions!
Lynn (D) - Team Voltage Software and Coach
At the Finger Lakes Regional, the referees physically took the keepers from robots that did not score them in autonomous before the teleoperated period began. There seems to be a lack of consistency.
At the Florida Regional, they seemed to only take away the Keepers that were too close to being scored. If the keeper dropped to the floor or inside the rack, they just left it sit and continued the match.
In one of the semi-finals, the referee entered the field and was removing the keeper when the signal for tele-operated play sounded anyway. You should have seen him scrambling to get off the field!
Lynn (D) - Team Voltage 386
PS. Sorry about the previous duplicate post. I was called away from my PC and didn’t realize it had already posted once and now I can’t find a way to delete it!
The refs told me they had a reason and rhyme to removing the keepers, but I forgot. It was something about if the keeper moved in the gripper it was taken out.
That seemed to be the rule of thumb at NJ, Lynn- if they were really close, they would take/pull them away. 375’s incident was the first and only time it ever happened (that I remember)- most teams were pretty good about dropping it ASAP, and I think 375 was more a freak accident than anything else.
I agree it is a very good I idea to drop your keeper at the end of autonomous. At NJ a team dropped their keeper while attempting to score on the middle spider and ended up capping it on the lowest one:yikes: . (I can’t remember witch team, If you know i wold love to be informed.)
That was us, Team 25, during Finals match 2.
I remember that!!(:D) But do you guys see what I mean- even if it’s not where you intended, it still may end up being beneficial.
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