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Re: Has Any Team Been Able to Find and Cap a Vision Tetra in Autonomous?

Yesterday, our team almost had it (*snap*). All it will take is just a bit of debug, but that's it.

Re: Has Any Team Been Able to Find and Cap a Vision Tetra in Autonomous?

We could defiantly create code that would make the robot find and place the vision tetra on the goal, but we did not think that our robot could do it in less than 15 seconds. We eventually dropped the camera because of weight reasons. It was sad because it would have been really cool if we could use it. I really look forward to seeing the teams who can cap the vision tetra.

Re: Has Any Team Been Able to Find and Cap a Vision Tetra in Autonomous?

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Originally Posted by Petey

I also agree with whoever it was that says the autonomous mode should be difficult, not impossible. Judging from this thread, this certainly seems like--with the exception of a few teams--to be considered an impossible task.

It's not impossible if someone can do it.

Honestly, I don't see why everyone's acting like the vision tetra is the only game in town for the autonomous mode. Don't forget that you can start a robot with a tetra "born" on it. If your probability of capping the born tetra is at least three times your opponent's probability of capping the center goal with vision in auto or at least two times his probability of capping a side goal, then you win, at least in the D&D RPG version of Triple Play.

You have to play the numbers. We're going to try to cap the VT in auto, but if it comes down to a point where no one else on our alliance is able to start with the born on and score it, we'll do that, because it's so much easier. If we can do that 91% of the time, we're better off than if we can cap the center with the VT 30% of the time.

Of course, when we go up against the team that can do both, we're hosed, but I prefer not to think about that. :)

Re: Has Any Team Been Able to Find and Cap a Vision Tetra in Autonomous?

Our robot can point at the tetra. Does that count? ;)

We just haven't had enough time to finish auton up yet. We got the robot in the last few days of build, and we weren't able to get the auton working in that short period. It probably didn't help that I was on the other side of the state on the Saturday that ended up being our last day of work (due to snow), but we did what we could.

Besides...we've got two regionals and Nationals to work this thing out. I'm not worried. :)