irsScouting2017 continues to be developed by the Issaquah Robotics Society (IRS), a FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team (see note 1) at Issaquah High School in Issaquah, Washington.
Scouting systems are used by FIRST robotics teams to collect detailed performance data on all robots that participate in a competition. This data is used to make strategy decisions for competition matches and to select other teams for playoff alliances.
- Android Application: irsScouting2017 uses an Android client app for data entry. The apps run on six Android tablets (one for each robot in a competition match) that are tethered to a server running on a Windows laptop. The Java code for the Android app is located in the irs-scout folder.
- PostgreSQL Server: All data is written to a PostgreSQL server that runs on the Windows laptop. We use the Psycopg2 and sqlalchemy Python modules for reading and writing to the PostgreSQL database. The database uses a star scheme that can be used for any FRC season without making any schema changes.
- HTTP Server: The client tablets communicate with the server via Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). We use the Cherrypy Python module for the HTTP server.
- Data Anaysis: In addition to Structured Query Language (SQL), we use the Pandas Python package for data manipulation.
- Output: We use the Bokeh Python package to generate output charts and tables. We also use the Xlsxwriter Python package for exporting data to Excel spreadsheets.
Output data from the 2019 season is available at https://irs1318dev.github.io/scouting2019/.
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