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Originally Posted by Molten
Also, I'm glad that 45 got their fan working. I heard that they were having troubles with it on practice day and it would have been disappointing had they not got it working.
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We never did figure out what was going on with that.
In several early matches, the robot took off and went forward at full speed with the propeller running for the entire autonomous period -- but the code doesn't have an option to do that! Then, for the rest of the match, everything worked except the propeller. After it had happened several times, the drive team brought the robot back to the pit with it still powered on, to see if we could do some diagnostics and figure out the cause of the problem. We did determine that the propeller safety sensor was working electrically but the software was reporting it always active, even when it was physically disconnected from the Digital Sidecar, but that didn't explain the incorrect autonomous mode. After a remote reboot of the robot controller from the Driver Station, all was normal, so we are confident it wasn't a hardware issue.
The stuck safety sensor lights a specific LED on our operator console, so it was possible for the drive team to watch for it and reset the robot before the start of a match (though it might have delayed things a little). Fortunately, it never seemed to happen again.