Our robot is fairly similar in capabilities/design to yours except we use a single lift. One thing that we have found is while our robot is really good at cycling the high junction you get more points based off of possession of the various junctions. Just a tip and your robot and auto looks fantastic!!
Thanks! You're correct about ownership. We have both strategies and decide which to use based on a number of factors. It's important to consider that if you put 25 cones on tall junctions, that's 125 points that no one can take away, but ownership and circuits require more time per cone, and are both susceptible to the other team taking points back.
it's either time or encoder clicks. If we haven't spotted the junction by, say 600 encoder clicks, we assume we missed it. In practice the only time it's every not seen the junction is when the sensor disconnected, so we're going to switch to "park-only" when that happens to at least recover a few points.
Review that spam strategy in actual competition. That stack gets very unstable and you could end up losing all points at the end... And worse you might end up with penalties against the other team if they have cones on it too.
Our testing has found that you're OK with 12 or 13 cones. If you knock it over it'll come back. Definitely teams in our league are thinking about this.
@@technophobiaftc I refereed a tournament recently where 10 comes was the tipping point, especially when banged by another bot. I think it's because the fields, towards qualifying time in North Texas, are worn out.
goated music choice
holy crap what a beast
Our robot is fairly similar in capabilities/design to yours except we use a single lift. One thing that we have found is while our robot is really good at cycling the high junction you get more points based off of possession of the various junctions. Just a tip and your robot and auto looks fantastic!!
Thanks! You're correct about ownership. We have both strategies and decide which to use based on a number of factors. It's important to consider that if you put 25 cones on tall junctions, that's 125 points that no one can take away, but ownership and circuits require more time per cone, and are both susceptible to the other team taking points back.
Awesome robot! Would you mind explaining how it knows that it needs to recover from a sensor failure?
it's either time or encoder clicks. If we haven't spotted the junction by, say 600 encoder clicks, we assume we missed it. In practice the only time it's every not seen the junction is when the sensor disconnected, so we're going to switch to "park-only" when that happens to at least recover a few points.
lol number neighbors, love from 15004
We saw your "Behind the Bot" episode recently. Great work! We like your horizontal slide
After scanning this QR code I am terrified of those capabilities
What sensor do you use for the dropdown bar on ur claw?
it's a 2m distance sensor
Review that spam strategy in actual competition. That stack gets very unstable and you could end up losing all points at the end... And worse you might end up with penalties against the other team if they have cones on it too.
Our testing has found that you're OK with 12 or 13 cones. If you knock it over it'll come back. Definitely teams in our league are thinking about this.
@@technophobiaftc I refereed a tournament recently where 10 comes was the tipping point, especially when banged by another bot. I think it's because the fields, towards qualifying time in North Texas, are worn out.
@@hassankarim7084 then we'll have to make sure our opponents, not us, knock it over! :)
Just put the doom music...wow
Also in auto do you just set the robot to move until the sensor acheives a certain value?
For dropping at the junction? We look for the junction, and then when we find it, we make some corrections before dropping.