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Autodesk Portland Regional |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 14:42 |
The Autodesk Portland Regional is now over, Roboteknix placing 19 out of 61 teams. We had some issues on the practice day, our program was still iterating really slowly, pneumatics were not functioning, and we were overweight. Our lead programmer Enmar spent the day working on the program and managed to get it running at the correct speed. The build team removed part of the robot that the surgical tubing connected to, shaving off enough weight to bring us to .4 pounds under the limit.
During qualification matches, we realized that kicking just wasn't the way to go because it took too long to get lined up for an accurate shot and because it was not reliable enough. Watching the game, the scouting team realized that most bots would just push the balls into the goals. We decided to convert our bot to a pushing bot towards the end of the matches, and that we would remove the kicker and pneumatics when we got a chance. We spent the remaining time playing goalie and scoring points when we could.
Most of our failure was because we spent most of the build season talking about design and strategy, and only about a week actually building. This was a lesson for us about the importance of making decisions quickly, and using time more efficiently.
Overall, we did okay at the competition; learned what worked and what didn't work with our design, what needs to be fixed in the program, and how other teams would play. There is much work to be done before the Atlanta competition.
More information about our team and the competition can be found here.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 07 March 2010 15:04 |
