I imagine this is the best place to put things. I want to do a sort of blog about my Final Year Project at the University of Greenwich for my Mechanical Engineering degree.
The project is to analyse the sport, mainly that which is on TV, to try and determine a hierarchy of design and to see if there are trends in which kind of designs tend to outperform another. For example, Rambot > Spinner > Flipper > Rambot. Thus the main objective will be to stereotype designs and break them down into basic categories.
Reason this relates to Antweights is the next stage. After breaking down the robot types to several basic weapons, ill get getting generic versions of those designs (via Shakey) to then fight against each other. For this purpose ill be building a new antweight arena which is based around the current Robot Wars arena to use as a testing venue.
Once thats built, ill be doing each robot design vs each other with another experienced roboteer to try and form a matrix of the how they perform against each other. There will also be 2 identical robots to act as a control, and the drivers will switch robots to ensure the driver skill is not factored into this first part of the test.
Going forwards, i will then be inviting roboteers/random people of various experience whilst i remain as a control to see if the difference in driver experience makes any effect to the matrix observed. We will see if the same stereotypes still apply, or if it all falls down.
By then comparing the effects of the roboteers driving experience compared to the difference in design, i will then analyse to see wether its the driver or the design which is more important in relation towards success in the fights outcome.
Thats the basic overview, obviously ill be adding detail as i go through but ill be needing to ask questions as i do it to double check as i go through. Hence the next post in this thread will be about arena design, i hope people find this interesting and are able to help me out in some of the questions i have
