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Originally Posted by eugenebrooks
Are you intending that a momentary lift on the human player
pad change the autonomous program that is selected after the
match starts?
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No, I am not saying you should use this to change your autonomous in order to find a vision tetra or anything like that. I am saying that a momentary disable (from the human player pressure pad) would likely mess up any autonomous routine and may change to a different routine (one selected by all 127s or all 0s coming out of the operator interface) depending on how you select your routine. Most teams who have selector switches have a "do nothing" setting. I am simply suggesting that programmers make this "do nothing" the same as all 127s or all 0s, which is the output during autonomous mode and also the output if the switches fail. Obviously, everyone's autonomous code is different and will react differently to a disable, but it doesn't hurt to make all 127s or all 0s a "do nothing" setting.
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Originally Posted by Alex Pelan
I did some testing of my own at UTC in the matches that I human played, and I found, even with one foot in and one foot out of the pressure pad, the green light was still lit. Thus, I got the impression that they were more forgiving than what has been described here. Anyone else notice how much pressure was needed to power on the pressure pads?
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I am not saying problems with the pressure pad are at all common. I didn't even figure this one out myself, the IFI guy suggested the pressure pad disable was the cause of our problem and I agree with him. As I said before, our human player is very light, around 110 lbs (Alex you will see him at Philly).
We had this problem and I am trying to warn others about this potential problem. It was a very frustrating problem to diagnose, especially since you can't simulate the controllers and pressure pads on the field with a simple dongle box (it still sends OI data in autonomous, so you could even drive the robot with a joystick if you wanted).
If everyone is aware of this potential problem, it doesn't take much to prevent it from ever happening again.