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Originally posted by Joel J.
If so, I am gonna say they are using retro-reflective tape and it is during the last phase of the match.. perhaps a robot has to find its way to their "end position."
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I agree! If FIRST does attempt to make a period of autonomous"ness" then to have it at the beggining of the match would be chaos! Whatever the robot would be programmed to do could be greatly affected by the other robots and what they are doing. i.e: If all the bots are programmed to go to the same place. There is no way for the bot to sense another robot and in turn adjust it's task or wtvr... If we would have that then the other bots would require retroreflective tape or something to know where eachother are. AND even if that is.. then since it is retroreflective then how would the sensors be able to distinguise between them or goals, obsticals, balls... with retroreflective tape on them. AND.....(I will stop now b/c there is an even more imp. reason why this isn't likely..)
IT'S TOO COMPLEX! Rookies would be totally excluded from the time we are automatically flowating around the feild. I think that it would be very, very hard for a rookie team who has never used code, or sensors before to pull off. I know that the majority of the teams didn't use sensors last year (even though thy weren't a necessity), and the bots were still outstanding.
Autonomous would be an awesome idea but it would have to be an "extension of the match". In other words, certain robot functions can go on for a said amount of seconds (robots jockying for position) after the said match was over. This merely makes it so that is a team did decide to go the extra yard to do this, they would get the extra time to do stuff hile others, well, don't.