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STRATEGY
During the first week of the course, we thought of many creative and unique
strategies for approaching this competition. And so with this in mind, we
agreed that we wanted to do very well in this competition and that we truly
wanted to bring our vision of an almighty robot into a reality. But what we
never expected was that the extent of time necessary to do this was beyond our
calculations. We tried to go for a complex, effective strategy that would be
successful in most cases (of course assuming the construction and integration
of the system went well).
Our main strategy began by first orientating our robot in the direction of our
four balls and driving as quickly as possible to their location to collect
them. Once this was accomplished, our robot would zoom across the
table to the
location of our opponent's two balls and collect them too. After this, our
robot would then travel to the other end of the table and collect our own two
balls. During this whole process, our robot would also be sorting the
balls. The two opponent's balls would be held till the last five
seconds of the
competition and then released. As for our own balls, one would remain
with the
robot and the other five would be placed in a basket. The basket still
attached
to our robot would be left in one of the corner scoring areas (X or Z) and our
robot with its one ball would remain in the middle scoring zone (Y).
Thus, we
would dominate in two scoring zones and win the competition.
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