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Yes, you may regulate 12v from the battery to 5v for your custom circuit board (as long as your regulator comes from digikey or FAI, etc, etc)

What do you need to draw 10 amps for, though? Remember that you are only allowed to have the custom circuit board send data back to the robot controller. It can not control a motor directly or anything like that.