[thefro526]

In my opinion Autonomous this year is going to go through some changes as the season goes on. Initially I think a large number of teams are just going to go with some kind of dodge or evasion strategy. I think this is going to be effective early on because a lot of teams are still going to be tuning their cameras and shooting systems if they plan on scoring in Autonomous.

As the season goes on and more teams become comfortable with the camera and associated autonomous modes we'll see a shift from defensive autonomous play to offensive autonomous play. This will be when a random dodge or zigzag autonomous may not be that effective because you could be moving within the range of one of the human or robot shooters.

As for my teams autonomous though, We've been talking about possibly 10 or more random autonomous paths so that you could never scout all of them, a program where we move in front of our HP and hope we don't get scored on by our robot, a program where we ram into the nearest target based on the starting position (Dead Reconing), and a program where we use our camera to track another robot and attempt to pin their trailer so that we can score if we want to at the beginning of Tele-OP.