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I especially liked the software for recording autonomous modes.
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Hmmm, I think you're misinterpreting something. We don't record driver's movements. We use a software program that shows a map of the field and just select points on the map. Those points are downloaded into the robot controller and our autonomous software drives from one point to the next. This allows us to create new autonomous programs on the fly in minutes, without any practice time with the robot or a field.
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I have to ask this...did the team's students ever actually have a part in any of this? No offense is meant, I'm just curious...this is the sort of system that NASA would be proud of.
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Yes. Our goal is always to have the students do as much as possible. This year that meant the students worked on the wiring of the custom circuit and writing the robot controller software (the RC software is by far the most complicated part of the system, BTW). A lot of the things that we've done over the last 2 seasons with the custom circuit required that the engineers learn a lot as well. As the engineers get more comfortable we will be able to better teach the students and hopefully work toward a goal of having the hardware, custom circuit software, and robot controller software completely done by the students.