Quote:
Originally Posted by faust1706
... snip ...
|
I admire your passion and sure, sometimes cool things are worth doing just because they are cool.
However, there are plenty of ways to go above and beyond in programming that will be FAR more beneficial to your team than automated path planning for ball retrieval.
Can your robot autonomously turn in place to within a degree of the desired angle?
Can you keep track of where your robot is (in a field-centric coordinate system) as it drives?
If you give your robot a series of waypoints to follow in autonomous mode, can it drive to each of them within a couple inches? Even if you are bumped?
Do you have a way to provide such waypoints to your robot that doesn't require re-compiling and downloading code?
These may sound simple, but they aren't. Being able to do any of the above places you in the top 90th percentile of teams in programming. As it turns out, you would probably need each of these capabilities anyhow if you wanted to be fully automated and do path planning. So start simple and build from there. See how far you get. If you don't achieve your grandiose vision, at least you have developed some useful (and still pretty cool) capabilities on the way.