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Re: [FTC]: Control at Compititions

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Originally Posted by jbbjjbt View Post
There will be one laptop at the field which will control all four robots at one time. Make sure your programs work correctly with the FTC Controller Station software in all the modes (autonomous, teleoperated, enabled, disabled) and then theoretically it will work with the Field Management system.

Perhaps this is explained somewhere, and I have missed it (very likely). If so, please just redirect me to the appropriate source.

Questions:

1. Is the "FTC Controller Station software" different than the "Field Management System?"

2. Are one or both of these available for in-house testing?

3. The RobotC template says that it is a "dual-mode" program and that separate versions should be used for autonomous and teleop modes. I understand the logic within the template, but I am unclear as to how to the switch between modes will occur. Are we building to separate executables that will be loaded in turn? If so, is this a manual process? Or is there an automated mechanism (using predefined file names?) that will handle this?

Thanks for any help.

--Bill Wiley
Coach, Acme Robotics FTC #12-15
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