So my team has been wondering what is the best robot design for cleaning the field because a lot of teams are fast at preloads but aren’t extremely fast at getting the cones off the field. We are thinking of redesigning so we can be a complement to DR4B or elevators. If you guys have any ideas let us know. The key to the design is speed…
See 7700R. They are a DR4B bot and extremely fast (probably the fastest) at fielding.
If you want fielding speed, you need to stack internally, meaning the DR4B + 4B/Chainbar + passive claw combo will likely work best. I don’t think were gonna see a large change from the above design in robots this season, like how last year everyone settled on two prevalent designs, but teams will get a lot better and faster at that design.
LOL.
7700R fast?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNkikZw0LyY
They can stack extremely fast on the field.
That’s not fast my man.
What is?
(legitimately curious btw, not sarcastic)
The only robot that’s faster that I’ve seen is 1961 X (at some times, when the driver is in his zone). Also, 1961 X is the fastest at match loads I’ve ever seen, someone even said they were able to get all 12 match loads in 10 seconds (not sure if this is true, but it’s not completely unlikely)
Do you know what claw design they went with?
It was actually a roller or “goliath” intake
Really? It seems like those wouldn’t be as fast as a 7700R-style passive claw that can release on the way down. They must just have extremely fast lifts.
what do I have to google to find them?
So there were a couple videos of them on youtube but they requested to have them taken down. I don’t think you can find them on google. We have a video of them from our last competition but won’t share it unless they give permission. @Duke4221c @eagles1961U @Aditya Diwakar could probably give you some more details on the robot if they would like.
You are faster at the match loads than 7700R I imagine
I think that is fair to say but you really can compare. From the videos I’ve seen of 7700R, I think their robot was optimized for fielding. So yea, i would imagine i would be faster, however that being said if i was to field, I would be much slower…So that is the trade off. That being said 7700R is a legendary team that knows what they are doing so by now i imagine they have preloads down too.
Yeah that’s true, not to mention as @akira said they are getting a new intake system right now that will probably be better at match loads. But apparently so are you. So it will be interesting to see who ends up better.
Lol. I’m pretty sure most semi decent internals can stack faster than 7700R did at the Pan Pacific championship match.
In that one match alone, they made numerous mistakes:
0:58, instead of immediately deploying their mobile goal intake and stacking, they spent ~3 seconds doing who knows what and ended up wasting 17 seconds bc of the defense that pursued.
1:22, 1:33, 1:38, 1:43, 1:54, 2:13 were all mistakes with cone alignment which were very costly…
2:00, another great example of wasting time (10 seconds). Why back off and go all the way around to get a mobile goal that is 3 feet from your robot?
In the end, 7700R scored 12 cones (not including auton) in a period of 1 minute and 45 seconds) which gives them an average of 8.75 seconds per cone… a decent fielding robot should be at least 5 seconds per cone throughout the match.
@Vexly What team are you on?
22 cones was the most we stacked at that tournament for a score of 135 only 10 less than the highest score in the world , it’s unfortunate that one of our worst elimination matches was posted.
Btw all of those are driving mistakes unrelated to the robot.
There’s a reason we named this robot Basura and I’d like to see your robot 
Whenever you see a 160+ score on VEXdb in the next month, you’ll know who it is 
Yeah, 7700R.