A better autonomous method..

[randomperson]

For all ya guys who have had trouble with your autonomous modes this year, and are going to nationals without a decent autonomous mode, I would encourage you to take a look at my teams code in for this year (white papers section).

The autonomous program is a playback/record program.. where the motor data is stored in EEPROM memory and played back during autonomous mode. There is present the capability of storing 6 recorded paths, but you could expand it to do up to probably 16-30 depending on how creative you are :-) The central element to this program is a hardware timer chip (555) of which a schematic is provided.

There are a lot of other elements to the program as well.. but the best part is our autonomous mode. Like I said.. look at the code.. very interesting. Hope this helps someone..

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/papers.php?s=&action=single&paperid=189

P.S: anyone needs help with their programming at nats i have a lot of free time over spring break if someone wants to fly me there.. lol! :D

[thoughtful]

hey, wonderful program, will save tons of time, the scematic diargram is not working, becuase we have old version of WORD. Can you put a JPG version or another image file version and psot it here. That will be very helpful.

[Astronouth7303]

You do realize that the code is obsolete, right?

[ngreen]

You'd have to convert it to C. But with this years controller a method like this will be so much better. You have more memory so you can record much more points. Last year we did a dead reckon like this and depending on how everything was it could get off and be un-accurate easily. Our programmer showed us this years version of last years code and the robot could consistently hit a spot plus or minus a couple inches. Yeah but this won't work unless you want to put it on your bot from last year for fun. "Turn the autonomous on and get out of the way", fun times. I like this years controller so much better.

[randomperson]

Yeah, and also.. this year the controller has a built-in timer... however, as they mentioned, the idea behind the my code last year still is a good one. I believe others have done the same thing last year and this year and some of the code is scattered around delphi...