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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday
The only way we're going to see better looking autonomous modes in the future is if they can find some way to give the software guys on all these teams some time to work with their real robot. Just like every other team I'm sure, our software team only had a day or two to work with our completed "shipping" robot. If every team had had an additional week to work on software for their competition robot, I think we'd see more capping happen.
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I agree with you, Dave. The time constraint WAS too short when all we had to worry about was operator control. Now it's WAAAAYYY too short. I was just thinking the other day about how much different things are now with autonomous control. We now have 3 times as many people working on controls than we used to have before there was an autonomous portion of the game.
One possible comprimise is to give teams the control systems and sensors one or two months in advance. If we had that extra time to work with the camera, I'm sure we would be capping vision tetras in autonomous. We decided that the time wouldn't allow it so we went with a more tried and true autonomous method.