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Originally Posted by Pin Man
intx13- true but you can also have multiple programs... Not just one big one... I believe a couple teams last year had like 4 or 5 different modes..
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We (1097) had 2...4...6...8...10...11 programs to choose from last year. Gave me a headache though, because i had to change the program everytime because we would change the robots configuration, change starting position, or our allies would decide that since we were rookies, our autonomous would be less successful than theirs (the irony was that thier auton always screwed up when this happened, even GUNN and Monta Vista). Anyways, Autonomous wasn;t much of a problem lasy year. The programming was simple. I believe this year autonomous will be much longer, maybe even half the match. Having it at the end of the match would be fun, very fun and quite a challenge, which i always love.
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Originally Posted by Rickertsen2
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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It really isnt that hard. Gyroscope and accelerometer will do it all with some integration.
But there is another option. If you looked last year, there was one little antenna on each of the four corner posts. They looked like the robot antenna. Anyways, i have good information that those antennas are used for FPS (Field positioning signals), basically GPS in a small scale. FIRST just hasn't open it up to us yet, but if they decide to move autonomous this year to the end, or even if they make it much longer, they might give us the hardware and information we need to use them. Makes programming that much more fun.
-Kesich