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Originally Posted by The Lucas
Human Players should stand firmly on their pressure pads and avoid shifting their weight during Autonomous Mode. Any movement could cause the pressure pad to switch off and disable your robot. This could have disastrous effects on your autonomous routine. To test what actions will turn your pressure pad off, watch your green light on the end of the alliance station and shift your weight to see if it turns off.
Our autonomous routine is selected by rotary (analog) switches. The routine that ran our bot into the goal in the second half of the autonomous period is the same routine that would run if our rotary switches were set to 127 and 127 If you use switches on the OI to set autonomous routines, make sure the all 127's or all 0's routine is a "do nothing" routine.
So please warn all human players and programmers out there about this potential problem.
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If you are using the switches on the OI to select the autonomous mode, you should read and save the values while the robot is disabled, and write code that sets a flag to stop saving the value once the robot has been enabled. That way, a spurious disable will not affect the autonomous mode.
It is interesting that the human player on the pad can communicate with the robot by shifting his/her weight on the pad. I am sure that FIRST did not intend this. We use a set of switches on the robot to select the autonomous mode in binary. Values set by these switches are not affected by the disabled state...