Team Four/Final Paper
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Overall Strategy
Our strategy for this game was to collect as many balls as possible and then score all of them in the last minute by shooting them into the tower or over the yellow wall, whichever one it saw first. However, we built our robot such that it was tall enough to score into the blue tower for 50 points, in the event the robot did aim for the tower. We originally were going to just aim for the blue tower, because we thought the middle tower had a large capacity for blues. But, when we found out that the blue tier could only fit four or five, we started aiming for the yellow wall as well, because that offered more points than scoring in the purple tier would.
We also anticipated that our robot would have a much larger capacity than the other robots, which was kind of true, so our strategy involved pressing the cyan button to put as many balls on the field as possible.
Mechanical Design
Drive System
Rubber Band Pick Up System
Double Helical Brush Lift System
Deoxyrobonucleic acid :P
Shooting Bridge
Four-point joint thing??
Software
Vision
FSM
Scoring
Because we were able to see the yellow wall from the tower and align to that, we decided to only search for yellow when scoring. Unfortunately, that meant the robot would be more likely to go for the yellow wall because of its larger size, but if we had enough balls that would be okay.
Placing in the Mock Competitions
The only reason why we got second place is because we didn't have to face the Mengineers (Team 3) earlier in the game.
