How do you plan on doing auton?

[Salik Syed]

Well what i am doing is basically setting up an X,Y coordinate of the field and keeping track of robot position and angle using gear teeth counters and a gyro... theres a function that makes sure gearteeth are counted at certain times etc... and another to update the robot in the coordinate system.... we are using the camera to find the vision tetra... and as for the distance from us to the tetra probably going to use bounding box size to tell when we're close then slow down until a (protected) switch hits the tetra... we back up and using a pot lower the arm etc... after that theres another func which compares robot position to target position and gives us angle to turn to and distance ....


i am really happy with autonomous this year because the way i set it up it doesn't even matter.... NO SWITCHES FOR AUTON !!! YES!!!! YES!!! YES... place the robot anywhere and it will find its way

oh crap i just realized... the coordinate system zeros to the robot start position darn darn darn... my dreams of a switchless universe is ruined....

[russell]

Put a couple of sonar rangefinders on the robot that look for landmarks and use that to set the robots start position. Just an idea, and probably somewhere between hard and impossible on a FIRST field, but it might be worth a try..

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Well what i am doing is basically setting up an X,Y coordinate of the field
It seems everyone wants to do a nav system this year, it has become so unleet.

All I have to say is you better start coding and testing NOW, RIGHT THIS SECOND if you want to having a working, accurate nav system by tuesday. Maybe a nav system is still leet after all... :)