Thread: Auto mode 2007
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Re: Auto mode 2007

I think that a lot of teams will attempt it, if nothing else.

It isn't that hard to do a dead reckoning program that will score if the rack happens to be oriented a certain way - depending on how forgiving a given team's scoring mechanism may be with regards to precision, I could see that strategy working up to 20% of the time when done well.

The camera also works pretty well, and I would up the chance of succeeding on average to about 2/3 IF the team can write quality camera code.

The reasons I'm optimistic are (a) I'm an eternal optimist, and (b) there really isn't much else to try to do during autonomous mode. You can position your robot, but the human load zone is right next to the robot start. You could try to navigate to the other side of the field to get ringers, but again, why bother if they're right next to you. Lastly, you could play defense, but honestly, I think I'd rather just sit there and let the other team take their shot before I'd risk damaging the robot and/or field by slamming into the rack. So I see a lot of teams at least trying - I guess we'll see how successful the teams are at scoring!