Quote:
Originally Posted by elmer_fud
If you start developing your own framework you have to make sure to do things like set up the watchdog and driver station properly. If you don't set up the watchdog properly you could run into problems with the robot not running or not stopping when you press the E-stop button. If you E-stop button doesn't work correctly I think you would be disqualified for safety reasons.
|
If you don't set up the watchdog correctly, you may not be able to get your robot to drive, but it can always be E-Stopped. There is a separate watchdog that teams have no control over that responds to the E-Stop command. Nothing you can screw up in your code will make it fail to E-Stop.