Game Discription

Aerial Assist is played by two com­pet­ing Al­liances of three ro­bots each on a flat 25’ x 54’ foot field, strad­dled by a truss sus­pended just over five feet above the floor. The ob­jec­tive is to score as many balls in goals as pos­si­ble dur­ing a two (2)-minute and 30-sec­ond match. The more Al­liances score their ball in their goals, and the more they work to­gether to do it, the more points their Al­liance re­ceives.

Official Game Rules

AER­IAL AS­SIST is played by two com­pet­ing Al­liances of three Ro­bots each on a flat 25’ x 54’ foot field, strad­dled by a light­ing truss sus­pended just over five feet above the floor. The ob­jec­tive is to score as many balls in goals as pos­si­ble dur­ing a 2 minute and 30 sec­ond match. The more Al­liances score their ball in their goals, and the more they work to­gether to do it, the more points their al­liance re­ceives.

The match be­gins with one 10-sec­ond Au­tonomous Pe­riod in which ro­bots op­er­ate in­de­pen­dently of dri­ver. Each ro­bot may be­gin with a ball and at­tempt to score it in a goal. Al­liances earn bonus points for scor­ing balls in this mode and for any of their ro­bots that move in to their zones. Ad­di­tion­ally, each high/low pair of goals will be des­ig­nated “hot” for five sec­onds, but the or­der of which side is first is ran­dom­ized. For each ball scored in a “hot” goal, the Al­liance earns ad­di­tional bonus points.

For the rest of the match, dri­vers re­motely con­trol ro­bots from be­hind a pro­tec­tive wall.  Once all balls in au­tonomous are scored, only one ball is re-en­tered in to play, and the Al­liances must cy­cle a sin­gle ball as many times as pos­si­ble for the re­main­der of the match. With the sin­gle ball, they try to max­i­mize their points earned by throw­ing balls over the truss, catch­ing balls launched over the truss, and scor­ing in the high and low goals on the far side of the field.

Al­liances re­ceive large bonuses for “as­sists,” which are earned for each ro­bot that has pos­ses­sion of the ball in a zone as the ball moves down the field. Points are awarded for each ac­tion per the table be­low/to the right

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Our ro­bot, Hermes, is well rounded, both of­fen­sively and de­fen­sively, with a catcher, shooter, and blocker. The ro­bot’s catcher can ex­pand to give us 40 inches of more space. The drive sys­tem al­lows both high torque and high speed. We de­signed our shooter as a cat­a­pult.