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Unread 05-01-2004, 10:51
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Re: Autonomous Mode

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Originally Posted by tysonwormus
This is just personal opinion, but every year that I've been involved (since 2000), FIRST comes out with some new twist or gimmick to the match, to make it difficult in a slightly new fashion.

We've seen 4 vs. 0, which was sometimes quite the strategy headache, and the advent of Autonomous Mode has pushed programmers.

This year, I believe that we'll see Autonomous Mode moved to the end of the match, with the scoring left at the end of the match as well.

With this feature, it will be easy for FIRST to design a game in which Veterans can achieve great points with a highly effective autonomous program, and Rookies are able to maintain a good score easily with decent performance during the manual control period and some stable defense for atonomous mode.
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I think that would be cool, but heres why i don't think it will happen. In order to do anything in autonomous mode you must have some idea of where you are. Developing a system to track position through an entire match is probably out of the reach of most teams. I guess you could sortof drive your robot in some fixed spot. If there were lines on the feild nearby you could align yourself to those and then start your auton.
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