18-04-2010, 20:59
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6th Gear Developer; Mentor
AKA: Blake Ross
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Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: May 2006
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,934
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Re: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You
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Originally Posted by kamocat
The thing I notice about all of those is that autonomous is always playing an assistive role to teleop. I wonder if that could be reversed?
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Another mentor wrote something like this during the Rack-N-Roll season - I'm paraphrasing:
Once you create a machine that can score a ring (or some other useful function) during the autonomous period, you use that capability like a macro to automate scoring during the entire match.
A good autonomous scorer, becomes a predictable/reliable tool for the drive team to use throughout teleop. It multiplies their effectiveness and frees them to think about higher level concerns, instead of the minutiae of the actions a machine can carry out on their behalf.
How about starting with this general mindset and then pushing it as far as we are able?
Blake
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