Talk:DEWBOT XII Seneca
From DEW Robotics
Contents
Post-Mortem
What Worked?
- Abbi aim
- Excellent drive team performance
- Excellent drive team decision making
- Very competent scouting
- Catapult worked well-ish
- Drive Train
- Remind.com
- Coaching
- Practice field discipline
- Volunteering
- Team engagement
- Team spirit
- Scouting preparation and planning
- Pit
- No right-side problems
- Ramparts crossing (driver training)
- Autonomous CDF crossing
What Didn't
- Lost Lock-up form
- Too many in pit
- Auto aiming
- Catapult behavior (inconsistent)
- A few bugs in scouting ap
- No one in pit for judges
- Not enough scouts
- Disappearing students
- Adding 7" to front uprights made the portcullis crossing difficult
- Did not follow packing list
- Not having trained people talking with judges
- Cameras on dashboard
- Battery issue (1x)
- Didn't scale
- Raspberry Pi & RoboRio not talking
- Slow shooting process
- Can get stuck in moat
- Intake jammed a couple of times
- Variable temperature drive motors (one hot, one cold each side)
- Driving over ball sometimes
- Pit vacuum
Lessons Learned
- Focus on objectives
- Training for judges - talking points
- Capture broken robot data (scouting)
- Drive team sleep discipline
- Claim stand space
- Capturing tower is key (not just breach)
- Need to breach every time
- Need to damage tower (8 balls)
- Need to scale
Q: Value to high camera at driver station (ala Nemesis)?
ACTIONS
- Auto aiming
- Scaling
- Catapult refinements -must reliably score from outerworks
- Scouting Ap improvements
- Upgrade Deux's drivetrain to Prime's standard
- Test Batteries
- Fix air leak
- Calibrate scale
- Volunteer for Westtown