FIRST is really looking into the Einstein problems

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by SillyRabbitt

I am a mentor/coach for a rookie team and I just have one question about the final 12 headed to FIRST. How many of the robots in question that lost communication during the matches had on-board cpu's? Its just a thought that might be an issue. One more x-file!

Sorry I didn't answer this before...
In reality "losing communications" is a catch all for what problems actually took place. We only know the robots stopped moving. We know (knew at the time) some of the robots that stopped moving were connected to the field and the RSL lights on the robots showed they were enabled. The problem(s) is(are) far more complex than you might think.
Very few robots this year had on board computers in addition to the Crio. I inspected none in four events. Those teams that really wanted to incorporate the Kinect on the robot used them and a few others for vision processing. I don't remember seeing any on Einstein but it was pretty dark in the pit.