brian9640 wrote: ↑May 15th, 2023, 11:04 am
I can tell you the $50 to $100 is correct for Robot Tour... The current high end robot going to nationals is just under $100.
I think part of that can be attributed to robot tour being a trial event so top teams didn't dedicate much time to it. I'm predicting that top robots next year will vacuum themselves to the floor to reduce traction loss and use LiDAR to avoid crashing into the obstacles and for odometry correction. We'll definitely see some pretty fancy robots at nationals next year (I hope to see a swerve or crab drive), though to be fair, that's true for any build event, and it's certainly true that a robot under $100 could be made HIGHLY competitive.
brian9640 wrote: ↑May 15th, 2023, 11:04 am
I'm part of the group writing the rules and testing the event for the past years.
Can you please clarify why teams are punished for being under the target time and if there's anything stopping them from just spinning in circles to stall before stopping at the target point?