So with skills this year we’re seeing robots that go for all 8 mobile goals as well as a couple of cones and there are a lot of fast skills runs that I’ve seen but what if there was a way to reduce the amount of time it takes to score a goal? Most robots drive to a goal, pick it up and then turn around to score it in the ten or twenty point Zone. But what if you designed a skills oriented robot that could pick up goals in the front but release them in the front AND back of the robot, this could allow teams to pick up a goal, back up and unload the goal in a scoring zone and eliminate the time it take to turn around. My thought was something like this paired with something like an x drive would allow you to score goals with minimal turning. I’m working on a couple of designs that I think might work for something like this and wanted to know others thoughts on this idea.
How about 2 mogo intakes
You could even do 4, just have two active intakes and two passive intakes and only use the passive in skills.
Personally I’m not a big fan of multiple goal I takes, although I’ve never seen one dona skills run. I feel like picking up one after another will slow you down, you’d be adding a lot of weight to the drive train and it would just be bulky. Personally I feel like a fast robot that can pick up one would be better
There was a bot at my last comp that used a single intake to set mgs on a conveyor belt that did just that. However, I don’t think that type of bot would be able to deliver them with lots of cones on it , so I think it is best to just accept the inefficiency. Besides, more mg intakes would reduce the time to deliver a goal a lot less.
My drive train suffers little from an added 8 lbs. I can internally stack on both and deliver both into the zones while keeping them level.
How do you do your mg intakes? We’re worried about one being too short because the other has to be so long to deliver flat into the 20 pt zone.
Nice, I’ve never actually seen a robot that can stack on two goals