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Originally Posted by Jared Russell
I would personally love to see an end-of-match autonomous mode, which necessitates very good localization. Up until now, teams could get by on using odometry from a known starting position and be (reasonably) repeatable over 10-15 seconds. Remove the ability to precisely control the initial conditions of the robot and it is a whole different animal.
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Teams could still control the initial position of robots -- though not as precisely -- by driving into position
before the auto/endgame.
For example, take the 2013 endgame. 10 point teams could have driven into the pyramid, and then once the auto commences, just throw their solenoids/engage their hanger. The same goes for 2011 or 2010.
Now 2012 -- that would be a hard endgame for the majority of FRC teams to pull off autonomously.