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Originally Posted by DonRotolo
Fully autonomous matches are kind of a bummer for the drive team, too.
I agree that few if any teams could field an effective fully auton robot given the 6 week build, But if there was a side competition - say, in mid-December, using 'last year's' rules, some teams might make a pretty good go of it. The biggest issue I see is that those teams would be spread far & wide, making an actual competition an expensive proposition (=travel) for most of them.
Hmmm, maybe next year at IRI there could be a few fully autonomous Breakaway matches?  |
I have a feeling it would just be sad to watch that. Robots would need to be retrofitted with sensors for it to be plausible, and then teams would need to spend time programming for a competition they would have to pay double the shipping to attend, should they even be invited.
Some really quick and dirty code that uses a camera pointed at the ground to try to find balls, pick them up, seek the key, and then go shoot could be kind of cool, if not amusing to watch robots to drive around aimlessly and crash into things.