eve, the answer to reliable robot performance is quite long and involved - too long for everyone on the list to respond. Battery power, design, sensors, dust, and robot alignment all have an impact on accuracy and reliability - program length by itself is probably not a factor but programming itself might be. One of the GREAT benefits from your team attending a competition and learning from observing other teams. Sent from my iPad On Nov 2, 2011, at 11:12 AM, "Eve M. Heshler" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Another question...Our robot always performed the first half of our > program flawlessly, but it seems like now that we are on the second > half it is not going where we need it to go. Is it possible the program is > too long? You know...the old telephone game where the message ends > up jumbled at the end because everyone has heard it and repeated it > differently? I'm thinking we may need to send it back to base at the > point where it is malfunctioning and send it back out to complete the > second half. It is only 6" from base anyway. I hope it is not a problem > with our robot. It will perform perfectly again once it dies down to a > certain battery level, so my other option is we are running it so much at > practice that it is affecting our program. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or leave the list". > > -- VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ANNOUNCEMENTS-L. Visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-ANNOUNCEMENTS-l.html to subscribe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or leave the list". -- VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ANNOUNCEMENTS-L. Visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-ANNOUNCEMENTS-l.html to subscribe.