by Siddhant
Have you ever tried very hard to do something,then realized it could have been easier if you did another way? Well,our team has, and knowing how precious time is with rookie teams, we do not want it to happen to you.
First we need to explain this situation. We started the Nature's Fury challenge with great enthusiasm. In our first meeting on run strategy we decided to attempt all the missions. We focused on doing all the missions regardless of the difficult level and regardless of points they would earn. Later on we realized that this was a plane rookie mistake.
As time progressed, we ruled out some of the hardest missions like obstacle crossing and block relocation. We still continued to attempt all remaining missions with equal weightage.
At the regional qualifying tournament with did reasonably well. We ended up attempting around 12 missions. The whole team analyzed our strategy one more time. We realized that if we do only three missions with perfection, we could get much higher score than attempting 12 missions with less consistency.
Those three missions are - pick up the pets, pick up the human next to the house and deliver them in the safety zone. Before driving to the safe zone, we need to load the water and the human from base onto our robot. These three missions are worth 250 points. Here is the analysis -
30 - at least one person with pet in red zone
66 - at least two people are together in red zone
54 - three persons in red zone (one we pick up, one is in base that we need to load before driving to safety zone and one is already in safety zone
45 - one water for each person (we need to load the water in base before reaching the safety zone)
25 - robot is parked in the safe zone
30 - no debries on the runway
This totals up to 250 points, we never scored this much in regional competition. We had a wrong focus of attempting too many missions and not doing any with precision.
First we need to explain this situation. We started the Nature's Fury challenge with great enthusiasm. In our first meeting on run strategy we decided to attempt all the missions. We focused on doing all the missions regardless of the difficult level and regardless of points they would earn. Later on we realized that this was a plane rookie mistake.
As time progressed, we ruled out some of the hardest missions like obstacle crossing and block relocation. We still continued to attempt all remaining missions with equal weightage.
At the regional qualifying tournament with did reasonably well. We ended up attempting around 12 missions. The whole team analyzed our strategy one more time. We realized that if we do only three missions with perfection, we could get much higher score than attempting 12 missions with less consistency.
Those three missions are - pick up the pets, pick up the human next to the house and deliver them in the safety zone. Before driving to the safe zone, we need to load the water and the human from base onto our robot. These three missions are worth 250 points. Here is the analysis -
30 - at least one person with pet in red zone
66 - at least two people are together in red zone
54 - three persons in red zone (one we pick up, one is in base that we need to load before driving to safety zone and one is already in safety zone
45 - one water for each person (we need to load the water in base before reaching the safety zone)
25 - robot is parked in the safe zone
30 - no debries on the runway
This totals up to 250 points, we never scored this much in regional competition. We had a wrong focus of attempting too many missions and not doing any with precision.