Talk:DEWBOT XII Seneca

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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

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