Thread: FRC 2012 Beta (Team 1718's First Observations)
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Re: FRC 2012 Beta (Team 1718's First Observations)
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Originally Posted by apalrd View Post
FYI, the data (except CPU load) - Packet time, packet loss, and robot voltage have all been available on the FMS end for a while (there's a screen dedicated to these three numbers for the 6 robots on the field, it usually runs on its own monitor on the field). The FTA should be able to see if you had an issue in a match due to battery voltage or packet loss.

This was very helpful this year when we were having minibot issues, which we eventually tied to battery voltage.

That said, I'm happy to be able to see it from this end.
The other nice thing about this is having a graph means being able to see history of voltage and trip time, something the Field Monitor can't do (or at least couldn't this year), and since the FTA tends to be busy during matches they may not notice everything that happens to a particular robot.