Tonight at 9pm Eastern you should join us for our cast on Autonomous Modes featuring some of the heavy hitters from around FIRST. Here's the plan
https://trello.com/c/VcjhvolJ and here's the place
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web...d=98466&cmd=tc
I'll also include the outline below but check the Trello link for the most up to date version.
- How do you plan what you'll do?
- How do you define your strategy?
- What sort of sensors are most useful?
- What sort of algorithms are good for doing filtering on those sensors?
- What tolerances are acceptable?
- How much risk is tolerable?
- How do you decide these things?
- How do you handle mechanical/electrical failures?
- How do you effectively utilize the capabilities of your robot?
- What autonomous functions do you use in tele-operated mode?
- How do you test your autonomous mode?
- How much testing is required before an auton is run on the field?
- How many autons do you have? How do you select them?
- Chris, what tools do you use for your simulation?
- Palardy, when creating scripting languages do they need to be real languages or can you cheat?
- Jared, what impact does vision processing have on your auton?
- Zach, what is the best way to start realizing that you can move in any direction? How do you utilize the omni directional capabilities of your robot effectively?
- For your 50th percentile FRC team (think Brave Little Toaster) how much of this is possible?
- What recommendations do you have for the BLTs out there to improve their autonomous modes?
- Is building a practice robot important for autonomous mode success?
- Do you see autonomous mode becoming more important (ala 2008) or less (2007)