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Unread 08-03-2011, 21:25
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Re: I am very nervous

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Originally Posted by lineskier View Post
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!
The first paragraph did not help much . I do not have the code with me, that also adds to my nervousness. And thanks for the heads up for the motors, I currently had it at around 40%. Man, our autonomy (actually software in general) usually gets scrapped until the end. We are the lowest priority apparently. Now I totally agree with you. Our sensors are literally going to be zip tied on or something. I constantly told the electronics, and CAD people what we needed from week one. It is not in any of the CADs. I can't believe everyone just expects the programmers to pull off miracles. So right now, we are like a blind man with a walking stick. It will be tough.

Keep in mind, I have been programming everyday since day one. It is just that I had been given lots of little "projects" to do. I wanted autonomy to be #1 this year, but people kept on piling on jobs to be done and it was the last thing on the other people's minds.
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