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Unread 12-04-2011, 19:29
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Wink Re: Autonomy: How Did You Guys Do It?

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Originally Posted by Robby Unruh View Post
I'm less interested in how they did it, instead what I want to know but is kind of mishaps occured during autonomous period?

One match, our robot drove straight backward and rammed another, pushing them in to their scoring zone, giving my team a red card, instead of just line sensing. Sooo unexpected.
I seen almost the same thing in the Niles, MI district Finals match. It happened in the last finals match. The other alliance called a time out and when the match started a robot went backwards al the way into our safe zone. I felt sorry for them and especially the programmer. (But for the grace of GOD it could have been me)

We did not know what they were working on in the time out but I assume the autonimous program for that robot was a part of it.

At MSC one of of our alliance partners did not use the tape but instead lined up right beside our robot. They veered into ours and knocked it off the tape and it missed. I seen a lot of the teams doing this there ( I don't know how they were programed) and I was not impressed with it. Some worked well but most missed and many stopped an alliance partner from scoring.