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Originally Posted by d.courtney
I had plans on doing this since last november when an alumni from our team chalenged me saying a fully autonomous robot would never survive in first.
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The doubt of others is the best inspiration.
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Originally Posted by d.courtney
Now as I am sure you picked up I think it is feasible. and things a robot could do better: keeping away from penalties for one... as it would be easy to program in preventive measures from getting them.
Now the other thing I will want to include is a manual override system for tougher matches. or when we are in a pickle.
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Of course. Any system like this should have a good level of redundancy.
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Originally Posted by d.courtney
Oh yeah one more thing... is there anyway that the robot could remember information, ie a robot that improves as matches go by...
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I think you are thinking about a sort of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning system. This would be severely stretching the limits of
any mid-priced microcontroller. But, you could use the EEPROM to store data. Kevin Watson has code to do that at
http://www.kevin.org/frc