[PhilBot]

Originally Posted by Bill Moore

How about an end game autonomous that will have one of two different methods of scoring depending on how many transmitters are active? "One" and "Two" could indicate which method the robots need to use for scoring.

I so much want to watch the end game be autonomous! C'mon GDC!

Or how about.... An autonomous end-game where the IR beacons tell the robots which quad of the field is the bonus zone... It would be wild to see all the robots racing autonomously to the same zone On second thoughts, maybe the two alliances would have different zones ....

The trouble with IR detectors is if you have more than two different codes going off, they may interfere with each other, but a foolproof way to use them is to have multiple emitters all sending the same synched signal. It's not much of a technical stretch for the field to be surrounded by a dozen or more high power emitters (just a few $'s). Then at the beginning of end-game, the robots could be put in auto-mode and then broadcast a master signal to all the robots symultaniously.

Each zone could have it's own homing code, but the chance of interference would be high.

Either way it would be an exciting end to a match.