Autonomous Scrimmage?

[RyanCahoon]

Originally Posted by carrillo694

teams rely on an "FMS" that gives everyone data about the location of every robot [...] In ZR, robots shoot virtual "lasers" at each other, but such a solution would not work well in FIRST. Robots would have to be completely on their own for localization and field navigation, as well as finding other robots.

Perhaps something similar to the system used in the RoboCup Small Size League (SSL) could be implemented. Teams can build custom robots (up to size limitations, etc) but are required to have "butterfly markers" on top of their robots to identify them, and a central camera system identifies the positions of the robots and game piece (ball) and reports these to each of the teams. Would be similar to bumper rules, etc, that are in current FIRST game rules.