Friday, October 19, 2012

Test post 2


We first thought about what we need to do in autonomous, and came to the consensus that putting the autonomous ring on the column with the IR beacon is a priority. We also think that we should aim to always put the autonomous ring on the middle peg of the IR column so that we can get automatic possession of the most strategically placed peg. In order to accomplish this, we will need a good way to determine which column the IR beacon is on in autonomous and put rings on it.
We then talked about the end game before tackling the topic of TeleOp. In the end game, the only extra points available are for lifting another robot off of the field floor. It’s worth 30 points for the first inch, and only 5 points for every inch after that up to 2 feet, so our team decided that we would try to lift a robot 1-6 inches off of the ground, as a 24-inch lift seems to introduce many technical problems with not many points in return. This means that we will need to have a good, optimally simple lifting system.
Finally, we got to TeleOp. We first noticed that the pegs that make up the center rack are only 6 inches long, while the rings are about 1.5 inches 

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