General purpose thread discussing what is and isn’t currently meta. This can stray from robot design to driving strategy or even skills routines. I think it’s also important to judge meta viability in terms of a gradient rather than a definite yes or no.

The main reason we did this was to prevent the intake from potentially gripping two cubes side by side as well as aligning to goal zones during autonomous. (1961Z)

Yea with an angled front, just hitting the side wall automatically lines you up for deposit. Quite convenient… if rollers don’t hit first. If they do, there’s not much of a point.

[image] ThirdDegree: You mean taking the third derivative of acceleration to find position? I just did the slash cuz they’re one sensor now [image] mvas: Unfortunately, the new IMU (inertial sensitive) is only a consumer grade product, meaning you can’t exactly get accurate results Li…

the main issue that tracking wheels solve is inconsistencies due to wheel slippage. but you can also eliminate wheel slippage by accelerating slowly. you could probably use the inertial sensor to make sure that you are accelerating slowly enough that your wheels don’t slip.

Wheel slippage doesn’t matter if you don’t use the intergrated encoders (imagine :clap: in between each word)

[image] 224x: Like I said in star struck we used 2 gyros a couple ultrasounds and a line sensor and made a reliable, high scoring, programming skills. That was also on v4, a much different system than v5. Refer to this thread: [image] New Products - December 2019 Unfortunately, it will n…

Which is better? A db4 hybrid lifting just intakes with a cube lock or hybrid lifting first stage (4cap)

I’d say lifting a mini tray lets you tower swap and rapidly score towers without having negative effects on your stacking ability so that’s probably better.

[image] ThirdDegree: A db4 hybrid lifting just intakes with a cube lock I doubt this will be possible because the tray needs to tilt forward when the lift is up for clearance. If you have the tray tilted forward (even if only slightly), small changes in acceleration will knock the cubes out o…

Oh your totally right, the bracing would hit. There’s a chance you can get away with just bracing the bottom and center because your only lifting 1 cube, but that’s certainly a conflict.

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mvas January 1, 2020, 12:00am 93

That was also on v4, a much different system than v5.

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