Intresting Autonomous
 

Today I watched a couple matches of the Traverse City FIRST Robotics District Competition. I mostly was watching the autonomous time. some teams have intresting autonomous.

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Yes a ton of teams have an interesting autonomous, which matches or what did their auto do?

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team #201 their autonomous time, it spins in a circle untill autonomous is over.

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We are gonna use the same routine, go straight and then spin or go to our human player's post and get refilled.

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We started it. They saw ours and copied it. They even told me. It was part of the reason that we won the regional, it worked amazing! No-one scored on us the entire district when we were in autonomous mode!

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Where did you get the videos? I can't find any, anywhere!

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wrong, every one copied 342. Our auton is "patented", just ask the announcers at Florida Regional from 2007

342 "patented distracting auton dance"
:p

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we did not make this autonomous up and were scored on in autonomus,
and we were on the winning alliance. Selected by 2645 (a Great Team, thank you:) ) and played with 247 (The Bears rock )

The most intresting or gut wrenching was our robot taking off at a slow speed than insted of one side forward and one backward both forward full speed into the driver station on the other side of the field. who ever thought up the bumpers on the driver station wall thank you. (:confused: did you flash it )

Tim

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We don't like spinning automode since our human plays say its easier to score on than some other modes. It does look awesome. :P

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My team, 904, went with the track the trailer and score in it method. It works pretty well. It's still a little buggy, but we can fix that easily.

I did notice at Traverse City team 2645 also was tracking and shooting. I was wondering if one of their programmers could fill the rest of us in on what their secret was?!? From what I could tell the robot drove towards the target, found it, backed up when the image percent was too large, and then lobbed a cell into the trailer. Pretty impressive.

Anyone use an ultrasonic sensor for their auto mode?

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They really need to give bonus points for robot scoring in auton. That is really impressive.

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Yeah, I totally agree. If your robot can score in autonomous every match (which I haven't seen) then it gives you an advantage, but only if you don't get a lot of balls in your trailer.

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I think 612 has a strong auto. They don't score in Autonomous because they chose not to but they can line themselves up almost perfectly with a trailer about 90% of the time.

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What do you mean "chose not to"? Why?

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Probably because you have a greater chance of scoring during human control. The fact that there are no bonus points in autonomous mode really makes scoring in autonomous less desirable. Instead I would imagine the team sets themselves up to dump as soon as the mode switches. Our robot has some stringent requirements to dump into the trailer for autonomous mode. Therefore I doubt we will be scoring during auto mode unless those conditions are met.