Random autonomous

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

You can't interfere with your opponents, and you can't be interfered with, so why do something random when you can instead do the best thing you're capable of?

This isn't strictly speaking true. Yes, there is a center line. But there are still ways to interfere or be interfered with.

[3132MentorMike]

Originally Posted by slijin

What we've done traditionally is include a rotary binary switch (a more compact version of what Don mentioned) somewhere on our OI or robot, and tie a specific auton routine to each setting using a switch block. By changing the switch's state, we can choose between auton routines on the fly when we need to switch roles for a certain match.

Yeah, this works. We've used a binary-coded decimal switch on the front of the robot so that you can pre-set your autonomous mode AFTER consulting with your alliance partners on the desired strategy.

"Random" doesn't work so well if you are going to interfer with what your alliance partners are going to do.

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by Jared341

This isn't strictly speaking true. Yes, there is a center line. But there are still ways to interfere or be interfered with.

Point conceded.

...but it still doesn't justify random actions!