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Re: New Robot Control System!

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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday View Post
You are incorrectly assuming that the other teams did not attempt because they were not able to and/or the problem was too hard. This is not the case - I can think of several teams at Midwest that I know are fully capable of completing an autonomous task like 2007's (and I'm sure there's many more than that which I am not thinking of at this time). I assume they (like us) decided that the autonomous payoff was not worth the investment and chose to spend their time/resources elsewhere. We chose to focus our software and electrical skills on making our robot easier to control for the operators. In the end, we feel we made the right decision.
And you did an excellent job at that, I am trying to say if FIRST switched over to a completely different control system, that it would make it much harder to accomplish things as fast as it would be with the current control system. To the best of my knowlege, by West Michigan, the championship, and IRI, you're robot had excellent autonomous capabilities. Wouldn't it have been nice to have that in the beginning also? Thats all Im trying to say. If a completely new control system was brought into effect, with nothing similar to the current one, it could take much longer to get to where you could be had FIRST stuck with the current control system, in your case, maybe no autonomous, and the robot much harder to control.
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