More than 1 autonomos...

[Jimmy_Team7011]

It might be such a dumb question, but at the last competition here there were some teams with more than one autonomos programing , and then, they placed jumpers interrupts in the vex rc to change between these programs, is that possible to do , or were they just trying to make us fool?


If there is any way to do it, how?

[whitetiger0990]

Yup, we did this last year for FRC and just plain old C, but the logic should be the same, and it's good to understand the logic. We had a lot of digital ports opens, we wired up some pwms to a DIP switch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIP_switch) and put it on the digital ports.

Auto_Mode=RC_dip_8;
Auto_Mode=(Auto_Mode << 1) | RC_dip_7;
Auto_Mode=(Auto_Mode << 1) | RC_dip_6;
Auto_Mode=(Auto_Mode << 1) | RC_dip_5;
Auto_Mode=(Auto_Mode << 1) | RC_dip_4;
Auto_Mode=(Auto_Mode << 1) | RC_dip_3;
Auto_Mode=(Auto_Mode << 1) | RC_dip_2;
Auto_Mode=(Auto_Mode << 1) | RC_dip_1;

Basically with 8 switches, you could have 256 possibilities of autonomous modes. The << shifts all the bits (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_shift#Bit_shifts) in the number left one (basically multiplying the number by 2), and then ORing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_operation#OR) it with the next switch. In the end you have a char (a number which is 1 byte long, or 8 bits) and 8 switches, each one controlling one of the bits. So by having the switches flipped in different combinations, you have a range from 0 to 255. From that number you can switch statement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_statement) or just if statements (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_%28programming%29) to control what the bot does.

We had no use for that many, but we had the space for it. The number of options you can have is 2 raise to the number of switches used. =)

[thefro526]

A real easy way to do it in EasyC is to use some code like this.

If Digital Input == 1
Do stuff
Else If Digital Input == 0
Do other stuff

and so on and so forth

[Jimmy_Team7011]

Oh...so its possible.....but i couldnt understand how to do it....could sb explain?



thanks

[DonRotolo]

Um, I think they just did.

Let's say that in Autonomous 1 you want the robot to turn left, and Autonomous 2 you want it to turn right.

If (Digital_input_1 = 1) then
[Code to turn left]
EndIf
If (Digital_input_2 = 1) then
[Code to turn right]
EndIf
Now, you need to think more about this, because what happens if there are jumpers on both inputs 1 and 2? (someone forgot and put both on). And a lot of IF statements might become impractical if you have 25 different autonomous modes.

Also, make sure there's always one choice for "do nothing".

Don

[SL8]

Also, make sure there's always one choice for "do nothing".
Don

THis is especially important cause otherwise youre robot will be stuck doing what ever it was supposed to do last.