The Pink Team 3 Tube Autonomous

[R1ffSurf3r]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTs3b2w_GSw

[biancs15]

This is absolutely amazing.
Beautifully designed with a superb manipulator / arm combo.

Oh and kudos to the programmers

[Norman J]

That is simply absurd. I firmly believed this would not be possible. Congratulations to whoever programmed that.

[CNettles11]

i'm amazed, are you guys using line tracking, vision targets, both or just dead reckoning? anyhow, that's an awesome autonomous period. I bet it was pretty hard to code!

[R1ffSurf3r]

Originally Posted by CNettles11

i'm amazed, are you guys using line tracking, vision targets, both or just dead reckoning? anyhow, that's an awesome autonomous period. I bet it was pretty hard to code!

Just a few encoders and a gyro slapped on with some tape.

[CNettles11]

Originally Posted by R1ffSurf3r

Just a few encoders and a gyro slapped on with some tape.

i'd keep asking questions because i want to learn exactly how this works but, for the sake of you and the pink team's sanity/success i won't bug you about it.

this is probably the coolest autonomous mode ever..

[JABot67]

This is absolutely brilliant. It will be even more amazing if Pink can pull this off in an actual match at St. Louis... I'll be watching them closely.

Think about it: If Pink can score 3 Ubertubes in auton, score 6 tubes on the top row, and get first place in the minibot race, that's 102 points easily achieved by one robot. No need for any other robots on Pink's alliance. Amazing.

To Jay, Taylor, Luke, Deanna, and all you 67 programmers (I know you read these forums): Do this.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by JABot67

To Jay, Taylor, Luke, Deanna, and all you 67 programmers (I know you read these forums): Do this.

I don't think this would be possible for anyone who has to turn around to pick up each subsequent tube.

[JABot67]

Originally Posted by Cory

I don't think this would be possible for anyone who has to turn around to pick up each subsequent tube.

Very impossible. I would have tried though...

At first I thought that this auton would be useless after qualifications are over, but then I realized that if it's consistent enough, it could potentially be better than three robots trying to put up three tubes and interfering with each other. This was a big problem at MSC.

[David Dawson]

Psssh the yooper troopers had a six tube auton two weeks ago. But seriously this game was built built for the pink team they have been building the telescoping arm since before I've been in first. I think this could be their year to win Einstein.

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Cory

I don't think this would be possible for anyone who has to turn around to pick up each subsequent tube.

That's what I thought when someone else showed me this video.

Well done 233.

But does it work with 2 other robots on the field, possibly in the way?

[Norman J]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

But does it work with 2 other robots on the field, possibly in the way?

It looks like the tubes are positioned so they can be placed in front of their two alliance partners, ensuring neither of them get in the way as long as they do not move.

[lynca]

I'm hoping this year is a big WARNING sign to the GDC. Give teams 20 seconds for autonomus ! They can do really amazing things

[penguinfrk]

Four of four successes? Insane!

Originally Posted by Cory

I don't think this would be possible for anyone who has to turn around to pick up each subsequent tube.

Maybe if your alliance partners helped push the ubertubes closer to the rack, then backed off.....