Re: Kinect in auton allowed
 

Were probably gonna use it for fun, but maybe for autonomous sequencing. Literally just like a button.

Raise/lower hand to proceed to the next item in your auton for spacing out when your alliance shoots.

Re: Kinect in auton allowed
 

True autonomous is better than a Kinect-driven "Hybrid" mode, but it is definitely not something to always dismiss, because it can (read: has a small-ish chance of us considering it to) be useful.

Take our current plan for using it, for instance:

The SmartDashboard accesses the Kinect. It takes a photo of them, and then uses the Kinect bone coordinate data to turn said photo into a paper doll of the person using the Kinect.

Then, it keeps updating the drawn parts of the paper doll to match the driver. The SmartDashboard then draws a sword in the driver's paper doll's hand, and starts shooting bombs at the driver's paper doll. The driver must chop the bombs, or he/she will be hit and blow up. The goal will be to last through all of auton.

This works well, as now we can do something while we wait for field issues to be resolved :)

Re: Kinect in auton allowed
 

:D

I see no advantage to Kinect use over a good autonomous.

Re: Kinect in auton allowed
 

So a game within a game?

I like it. :D

Re: Kinect in auton allowed
 

That's the idea :)

Re: Kinect in auton allowed
 

At least in this case, there's the high entertainment value. :)

-Karlis

Re: Kinect in auton allowed
 

I thought the driver station and/or control system was designed so that no joystick inputs were sent during autonomous mode. Has it changed since my day?

Re: Kinect in auton allowed
 

I think they do allow data to pass from the driver station to the robot. One example is using the driver station to do vision processing off-board.

Re: Kinect in auton allowed
 

I don't think joystick data is sent, but as the Kinect handled uniquely, it is still sent over.