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Vacuum, Trig, and Intake - michaelc - 04-09-2024
I have 3 things that I would like to see done this offseason. they range from stuff that will take one hour, to one day, to a couple of weeks.
1. Vacuum the carpets.
The carpets have gotten very dirty over this season and it is something that we can do reasonably quickly.
2. Use trig for our auto-shoot instead of tuning.
This means using trig to find the right angle for our tilt instead of tuning. This is highly theoretical because the farther we get out, the less accurate our apriltag data will be, but it would be cool to try.
3. Try an under-the-bumper intake model on our practice bot.
This may be impractical and is also something that mechanical would have to do and not us, but the over-the-bumper strategy that we have been using is very slow and power-heavy, possibly contributing to our lower-than-competition cycle times, which may have even caused us to not get picked. During the season, this would have been a huge change to make and we had to move forward with our design, we should not regret anything, but now in the offseason we have time and I would like to see how that plays out. I think the best way to do this is to make the updown arm lower in the drivebase and fixed upright, and then tilt the tilt almost upright to intake. Then we could make a new prototype bumper. I think that this could make our robot even more competitive in the offseason and cut down our cycle times.