What will the best autonomous look like?

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I’m curious to see what the best autonomous will look like. I’m thinking putting a cube on all 4 marks.

  1. Place the pre-loaded game piece (cube) on top node
  2. Cycle as many cubes from the marks onto the middle and top nodes (2 or 3?)
  3. Dock on the charging station
    Is there anything that you guys would do differently?
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Be able to do permutations of those actions, while staying within pre-defined lanes (so that you don’t get in other teams’s way)

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I think ending auto engaged opens up the most routes to an activation RP, so I expect that to be a priority.

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I think the product of my teams discussions yesterday was this:
With only 15 seconds, an optimal autonomous will be to score the preload, go get another from the middle to score, and then engage with the charging station. Depending on the speed of the scoring mechanism, you may be able to get a second game piece from the middle. That being said, if you have an alliance mate who can engage, it may be possible to skip that step and use that time to get an extra game piece

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I agree. But only 1 robot/alliance can do that. So I think it will be essential to have that auton and at least one other one.

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Being engaged or docked in auto doesnt matter, the points difference has no change on bots needed in endgame to get the ranking point.

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That’s not how I read the manual:

At least 26 total CHARGE STATION points earned in AUTO and/or ENDGAME.

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No but the point is that, 8 or 12 points doesn’t matter, you still need 2 robots balanced to get the RP at end-game

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I think it would be 1 cube placed preloaded on top row two cones placed top row block loaded and charging station engaged

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I’m not sure we’ll see team scoring high (or even prioritize actually scoring) at the highest level of play.

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Maybe I don’t math so good, but it seems to me that you need 3 robots on the teeter-totter to get your 26 points. Either 1 Auton and 2 Endgame or somehow all 3 in Endgame.

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cycle time for this would be 1 sec to score so 3 sec of scoring .5 sec to load so 1.5 to load and the rest of it would be in transit

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I think as far as only piece no climb autos go (if partner climbing or something), a 3 piece auto might be the 5 ball of this year

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Mind explaining more?

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All robots should score their preloaded piece.

Another robot taxis and docks but does not engage
A third robot drives over the charging platform and docks and engages.
One robot grabs a second game piece and scores it

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this allows less experienced teams to take the easier (engage or dock+engage) autonomous paths.

This would grant the points for the game piece scoring, 8 points for the docked robot, and 12 points for the docked and engaged robot for a total of 20+ points.

Did I interpret the manual wrong here? This would reduce the requirement for the RP to just one docked robot.

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That would be ideal

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Only one robot can get points for docking or engaging during auto.

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Sorry, i did not explain myself well enough.

@BryceHanson’s post specifically calls out needing to be engaged in auto to have the most paths to the endgame RP. Based on Jareds scoring calculator, while the auto charge station is needed, the points difference between being docked or engaged in auto (8 vs 12) is not enough to cause any difference in the routes you can take to get the rest of the points in endgame. The only benefit for getting Engaged in auto is an extra 4 points.

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what I am aiming to have my team do is score the preloaded+ one we pick up + pick up another one+engage

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I would think that the best auto would look like placing a cube on the high level and docking + engaging, for a total of 21 points.

EDIT: This is just for 1 robot, not the whole alliance.