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Originally Posted by DaveF
The teams having this problem were complaining that the field control system was operating erratically and causing the robots to go back into autonomous mode during driver control. It was my understanding a couple years ago, and I do not believe VEX has changed anything in the last year or two, that once your robot runs the autonomous part of the template, it cannot re-run autonomous until the power on the robot is cycled to reset the microprocessor. The field control system cannot cycle your robot’s power or tell it to run autonomous again.
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You're correct that the field control system cannot cause a robot to re-enter autonomous. The field control system is only able to turn the robot's transmitter on and off, nothing else. Autonomous is controlled by a timer running inside the robot. Therefore, if the VEX microcontroller resets for any reason (too much current being drawn by the motors and buggy code are two common causes of the microcontroller resetting), the robot will restart its autonomous program. As hard as this is for the teams to accept, this is not the fault of anything external to their robot.