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Unread 15-11-2010, 13:50
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Re: [FTC]: FCS and autonomous

I'm new to FTC and I'm looking for a clear cut set of steps or sequence in regards to autonomous. I'd like to list out what "I THINK" would happen in a competition and if you would, let me know where I'm offbase.

SETUP:
1. Prior to a competition, for simplicity, I have a single Autonoums (AutoX) program and a single Tele program (TeleX). Our NXT will have firmware v1.28 on it with three programs: Program_Chooser, AutoX and TeleX. We have two other VI's (Samostat.vi & Comm_Status.vi) as well but there are not part of the question I have. Lastly, we have a team.gif file to indicate our team logo.

2. Also, prior to a competition, we've setup our Samantha unit to be using the same wireless network as the FCS comptuer mentioned below. Life is good in regards to the Samantha unit.

3. Using Program_Chooser, we select TeleX for our teleoperated program

4. FCS: There is a single computer with four game controllers and it's running FCS. That computer is either directly wired to a router or uses wireless for connecting to the same network. We are just one team of four. The person running the competition correctly assigns the four teams via selecting the corresponding Samantha unit (I assume each team will run SamoStat.vi on the NXT to tell the person our IP address).

5. Our robot is put in place on the competition mat.

6. NOW... this is my question... do I instruct our student to select (on the NXT itself) the AutoX program for our autonomous and hit the orange button to run it? Theoretically, our robot is all setup in regards to the FCS.

My problem is that I don't know how to select a program to run as autonomous without selecting it on the NXT itself. When I do that - it runs (okay, that's expected). But at competition, how is it that I select the autonoumous and yet the FCS kicks it off?

My vision is that there are four team's all with their autonomous program selected and at the count of three - they all press the button on their NXT at the same time. But... I'm thinking that's wrong and that "SOMETHING" on the FCS program will kick off the autonomous program.

Comments/suggestions on how to test this out?


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