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Re: Wolrd Triple Play Autonomous Mode (WAM) Standards

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Originally Posted by Ian W.
I don't like it.

In theory, it's a good idea, but it just doesn't sit right with me. I don't think that it's necessarily against the spirit of FIRST, if anything it might go right along with it to help teams out.

The problem is that I believe teams have enough trouble with one autonomous program. Sure, if everyone helps out, it could be done, but how well would they work? In the six weeks that we have, I think this idea takes a very low priority, one that many teams will not even get to.
Where this has real value, I think, is not necessarily in having every team being able to do every possible auto mode, but in communicating those things that a specific team can do for an alliance.

Of course, there will be several teams with on-the-fly selectable auto modes, that can do everything from capturing and capping a vision tet to brewing a mean cappucino, but they will be the exception. What this type of system will do is to gice us all a nomenclature to discuss auto mode, strategize, and avoid the types of problems that were demonstrated during kickoff by the two "robots" who each grabbed the same tet.

It will also be valuable for scouting. Every team that scouts will have a similar list of possible functions, this system just tries to find a common list for all.
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