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Re: elim field issue?

There is at lest one other scenario which creates the symptoms you describe. I saw it happen multiple times at NC, where a team's autonomous worked but then had no control in tel-op. When the NI rep looked at it, he found they had an infinite loop in their autonomous code. Since it never completed, it never transitioned to tele-op. One time when they were on the field, this happened again. The during the match they got bumped and the cRio rebooted. When it came back up, it recognized that it should be in tele-op and they were able to begin driving. This can be a coding issue. There are threads both here and at NI.com/first about it.

Testing autonomous and tele-op via tether by seeing if you can run each is not the same as having one run after the other automatically. I'm told that there si a capability on the classmate to run a simulated match which might find such a problem. Another possibility is to download FMS lite and to run your own simulated match using (most of) the same software running on the FIRST fields.
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