Thread: Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (AKA - ROBOTS!)
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Re: Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (AKA - ROBOTS!)
Dean, Woodie and the Game Design Committee should take note.

These teams has there robots for MONTHS. They had GPS and VISION Systems. They had many times the computing power onboard their robots. The teams were made up of tech savy college kids and their profs.

YET... ...surprisingly few were successful at the task of autonomous navigation (perhaps 30% if you are generous in the grading scheme) and they didn't have to actually DO anything (like pick up a tetra and place it successfully on top of a goal).

Autonomous Mode is HARD!

I will just suggest the following question: Does Autonomous Mode get us closer to the goals of FIRST or would the time and resources devoted to AM be better spent elsewhere?

I know where I come down on this issue.

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