[Bruceb]

706 was with 2481 in the finals at Milwaukee. We had the camera loss at the same time as they lost all control. It was imediatly after the auto mode ended and there had been no robot to robot interactions and no collisions with the field. After the match we logged out of driver mode and back in and regained the camera. Sure was hard trying to win the match with 2481 down again and a sub playing defense. Nothing against the sub, they did a great job and kept the score down to 7-3 but with noone feeding us balls from middle we were pretty helpless. As coach I am hitting myself now for not telling our third match defence partner(sorry I don't remember the team number) to abandon defence and feed us some balls. Grrr Hind sight.
Anyway, I have to ask why is it that we are using a control system that is so complex and error prone? I can go to a model airplane field and have 15 planes in the air at the same time and none of them will have com problems.
Are there some things that every team should do between matches other than look for hardware issues like rebbot the classmate or log out and back in? I know that some computer systems need to be restarted regularily to keep from getting flaky errors. Also, having power at the drivers stations could be helpfull here. Is it legal to bring a battery and an inverter to the drivers station?
Bruce