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Originally Posted by davidthefat
Well memories of last year are coming back. We never even scored once in autonomy because one victor was on coast and the other on brake, so one side would speed up before the other. So one time we ended up turning around 180 degrees and running right up the tower. That was when everyone lost trust in me (well at least FELT like everyone)
I guess you can say I have the fear of failure. I felt that I failed to do my part last year. The worse thing is that I was not nervous at all last year. (I was more exited about skipping school than the competition)
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Honestly, autonomous this year is much more difficult than last year. Plan on never capping. However, what your team need to realize, to compete this year, you need a working autonomous. Look at the finals matches from all events, they are full of robots with working autonomous. I say this, because your team needs to help you reach the goal of autonomous.
Insights I have for you from week 1. If you are running motor speed at a .1 or .2 in autonomous watch out for the batteries. The newer batteries have more power than older one's. This caused me to smash into the driver station in one match. Watch out for the coasting CIMS, if they are geared to high your autonomous will be almost impossible.
Your robot will fail epically at least once in autonomous. Try to do this on thursday, so you can learn from it.
If you have your code, feel free to send it to me
mwtidd@gmail.com. I'll take a look over it, and see if there's anything you should be worried about.
If you find that the robot was poorly designed for autonomous. Just scrap the autonomous. I should have done this earlier in the comp and focused on the minibot.
Try to avoid as much blame as you can. If you get a working autonomous you will be a hero, but this is dependent on so many design factors. Its often better to let the robot sit in autonomous, and just work on getting the autonomous working on the practice field. You won't need it til saturday.
At BAE we actually organized the sharing of the practice field... we had anywhere between 2 and 4 teams sharing the space at one time. It worked really well to have 2 or 3 teams debugging their autonomous together. Its also motivating to see other working robots, and other teams having trouble. I have more fun playing in the practice area, than watching the matches
. It is the back room that the real magic happens.
Hope I helped!