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Originally Posted by Joohoo
I would love to see it but what about all those teams that don't or can't do autonomous mode. Wouldn't it be somewhat anti-Climatic for the end of the game? to see X amount of seconds a bunch of robots doing very little?
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Last year I remember there being far more teams having successful autonomous modes. The amount of teams attempting to do autonomous mode is a function of how valuable it is.
I think it'd be neat to just have a simple one: have a white line demarking the 'end zone' that robots need to get into at the end of the game, maybe with a vision target near it as well. The white line could be used with the little infrared sensors we've had in the past.
The rule would be written like this:
For every robot that is contained in an end zone at the end of the game that was not in the end zone at the beginning of the final autonomous phase, that team's alliance scores 10 points.
So camping in the end zone wouldn't score you points, you'd HAVE to get there autonomously. It'd also open up defensive autonomous modes: teams might camp in front to block the opposing alliance from being able to earn bonus points.
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I'm not sure. It depends on how that would be worked out. Would your robot, using this year's game as an example, be in the middle of scoring, then all of a sudden, it would stop and autonomous would take over? Would there still be autonomous at the beginning? Also, would the human operators have to step back? There would be some serious penalties if they didn't. It would throw the whole game. Interesting...I can't decide.
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I think the ideal implementation would have a 5-10 second pause between the end of teleoperated and the final autonomous mode. If you don't feel your robot is in a 'safe' position during this 5-10 second phase, you can hit the e-stop.