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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri
Field timing issues were pretty prevalent last year and it's unclear to me any of it has been fixed.
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Originally Posted by Jared
It might seem a silly question to ask if there is a significant delay between sending red and blue side commands, but hey, that's exactly what happened last year with the hot goal lights, which were +/- 4 seconds in terms of accuracy at times.
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Originally Posted by Jared
You'd think, but the difference in time it took the FMS to send commands to the phillips lighting controller last year was sometimes greater than 2 or 3 seconds. FMS timing seems to be properly understood by nobody.
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I think it's fairly widely known that the FMS has been substantially (completely?) rewritten since last season, so anecdotes from 2014 are of limited applicability to 2015.
One of the questions I was taught to ask early on in Grad school is what scale of effect actually matters in a given experiment, and to focus only on those factors that have meaningful impact.
If there are no systematic biases towards particular team stations, how much does a worst case 20ms delay due to polling actually affect a mechanism compared to all the other variables in play?