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Originally Posted by chris
Last year, most teams said "Robots should hold AT LEAST 4-5 objects"
Most teams I saw didn't hold more than 3 at a time, maybe 4, even if they had the capacity to hold more.
This is all because sometimes, it makes more sense strategically to score rather than to pick up more. Therefore, deciding how many objects your robot should hold is very hard to predict. |
I agree.
When a quarter of the people responding to this poll indicate that they think a robot should be able to hold at least 20lbs of sacks, it makes me wonder how much people have actually thought about the implications of it.
If you stack up 40 objects, it would be a 5.5"x5.5" stack of objects 30" high.
If you want to store them in your robot, you're looking at probably 3 stacks that are each ~10" high and 5.5"x5.5".
That's pretty much a third of the volume of your robot. And you still have to have something that intakes the sacks, something that stacks the sacks neatly, and something that can lift up all that weight (not to mention a drive base to move 35+lbs).
I would much prefer to comfortably hold 10 sacks and score them quickly without having to worry about the huge
forces mentioned above.
If you can build a robot that can descore the troughs and suck up all the sacks on the field and hold them until the end of the match at which point it tries to dump them all into the troughs, do you really think no one will be blocking you? No doubt the other
team will notice what you're doing and won't let you score anything.
