2023 - Charged Up
2023 FIRST Robotics Competition CHARGED UP
Field Tour Videos
2023 Field Tour Video: Charge Station
2023 Field Tour Video: Substations
2023 Field Tour Video: Alliance Area
Robot Development
Ways to Score Game Points
Mobility
Each robot whose bumpers have completely left its community at any point during auto - 3 Points
Place a game piece into the grid
Bottom Row - 2 Points
Middle Row - 3 Points
Top Row - 5 Points
Autonomous Period Grid Points - 1 additional point per placed game piece
Complete a Link
3 Game Pieces in placed in a row within the grid - 5 points (Scored at the end of game)
Docking and Parking
Docked but not Engaged - 8 points in Auto, 6 points per robot in Teleop. (Max of 1 robot in Auto)
Docked and Engaged - 12 points in Auto, 10 points per robot in Teleop. (Max of 1 robot in Auto)
Parked in Community at end of match - 2 points
Fouls
Foul - 5 points
Technical Foul - 12 points
Right of Way - Contacting an opponent’s robot while any part of them is within your loading zone or community zone will result in a foul per instance of contact.
Ways to Deny Points
Single Robot Blocking access to a particular area of the field is allowable. (G203)
Ways to Score Rank Points
Point Maximums
Maximum Alliance Autonomous Score
All 7 game pieces placed on high grid row - 42 Points
All Alliance Robots leave Community - 9 Points
One Robot Docks and Engages the Recharge Station - 12 Points
Total of 63 points available without penalties
Maximum Alliance End of Game Score
Maximum Alliance Autonomous Period Score - 63 Points
Two remaining high grid row - 10 Points
Place 9 game pieces on middle grid row - 27 Points
Place 9 game pieces on low grid row - 18 Points
9 Links scored for filling out grid - 45 Points
All Alliance Robots Dock and Engage the Recharge Station - 30 Points
Total of 193 Points available without penalties
Game Mechanism Research
Picking Up Cones
FTC recently had a game that required teams to pick up cones.
- How Do I Pick Up a Cone in POWERPLAY?
- How Do I Score a Cone in POWERPLAY?
- Intake Prototypes - FTC POWERPLAY 2022-2023
- Intake Prototype Update - FTC POWERPLAY 2022-2023
- FTC Power Play World Record (Former) 265 pts - Beta Bionix 17595 & The Emerald Bots 19708
- Beta Bionix - 3.25 second TeleOp cycles #powerplay
- Behind the Bot 16460 GEarheads | POWERPLAY Robot
- Vacuum/Suction Intake Testing Ri3D Redux Charged Up 2023
Tools that place or manipulate cones
- Tool to pick up traffic cones
- Road Cone Placing Machine Is Safer And More Efficient
- Introduction to Automated Cone Laying Machine
- X-Cone - Traffic Cone Management System
Charge Station Balance
Similar goal in FRC 2012