Talk:DEWBOT XII FRC Championship

Post-Mortem (FRC Championship)

The Good

• Scouting
• High shooting
• Andrew's Birthdays
• New Intake
• Portcullis autonomous
• Moat autonomous except once
• No breakdowns

The Bad

• Got stuck in the moat once (at start of match)
• Hanging is too slow to score
• (2) scouting tablets damaged - all in bad condition
• Everyone got sick and threw up (but not all at the same time)
• Bolt holding catapult dog gear broke (but not in competition - fixed for competition)
• Auto aim did not work for a few matches (fixed - software issue)
• Auto aim would be better if it were faster
• Intake was smushed in competition - fixed and re-enforced
• Got a yellow card

Post-Mortem (2016 Season)

The Good

• Scouting (really turned a corner)
• Tableau for analysis and presentation of scouting data
• LabVIEW --> Java transition
• Choice of Catapult
• Selection of tracked drive-train
• Drive team coach
• Engineering notebook start (however, there were follow-up issues)
• Qualified for FRC Championship!
• Travel more organized
• In-team communications
• Co-hosting Westtown
• Co-hosting Westtown provides base for Chairman's work
• Drive team transitions
• Outreach
• Dean's List (Meghana advanced to MAR Championships)

The Bad

• Excessive time was lost in tracked drive-train development
• Weak design process
• Inadequate design bandwidth
• Slow design decision making

The team's design decision-making process has traditionally been consensus-based. A consensus decision-making process under the right conditions can result in good decision making - but never fast decision making. The problem in developing consensus grows geometrically as the size of the group involved grows.

• Shop (dis)organization
• Organization overall
• Time management
• Back-up drive team

Original thoughts that Josh G & Akhila (from FTC) would form the basis of a 2^nd drive team were scuttled by FTC 7314's stellar competitive performance this season. Despite this, cross training (Abbi can perform any drive team role, it seems; Alicia stepped up also; and Larry Dodds could have substituted for Laura if this became necessary) allowed us to manage absent individual drive team members in competition

Actions / Projects

• Expand vision processing and co-processing expertise
• Improve design process
• Reorganize workshop
• Tool service and repair
• CNC Router Project
• 3D Printer Project
• Shifting Swerve Project
• Budget including tool acquisition & trailer
• Grant writing
• Hang for IRI
• Talent for IRI
• More Outreach
• Develop safety APP (Tablet) - work w/ UL
• Revise Scouting APP

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