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Re: Advantage given by succesful autonomous mode

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Originally Posted by Salik Syed View Post

The rack is rotated randomly and there is no reliance on what the other teams program might do,
and while I agree, it is certainly possible and not even ridiculously hard to figure out a way to work this out. I just don't see many teams doing it. You talk about implementing vision like it is a very simple task, but realistically it is not.

Last year I saw about 50-60% of teams do something in autonomous mode (at our regionals) most teams were unable to accomplish anything other than defense. If only 15-20% of teams can program a robot to go in a straight line and dump balls in a goal efficiently what do you think that says about implementing a succesful working vision system?
I agree.

Most teams don't do auto mode because usually the hardware isn't finished until the last day or worse on the practice day. A good auto mode just takes time to perfect. You can not usually get auto mode done on practice day at a regional, we were able to pull it off twice but barely and that because I have done a lot with autonomous. 2006 we had a simple auo mode that delivered 10 balls every time because it was simpe but that took a day and half non-stop to make that happen.

Few people are going to do a good auto mode this year unless they have several days to work on it.
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