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Unread 16-02-2003, 12:23
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2 days to go how is Autonomous going?

Other then simple programs such as moving forward or back, how many teams are done with their Autonomous code. Our bot is still in the shop and our programmer is just now getting his time with it to figure out how to program everything. How's the rest of the world going?
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Ehhh, pretty good.

Im not on the programming team, but im pretty sure we have about half of our autonomous programs finished.
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i dun with it
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I've got a program written, but our robot still doesn't drive so I can't test it. I'll be lucky to get 15mins with the robot before we ship...
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I've got a program written, but our robot still doesn't drive so I can't test it. I'll be lucky to get 15mins with the robot before we ship...
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I've got a program written, but our robot still doesn't drive so I can't test it. I'll be lucky to get 15mins with the robot before we ship...
I know what thats like.
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Well, autonomous is done, theoretically. I've gotta tweak it, but we went to a scrimmage today @ chatsworth and I kinda made the gears jump off. so we gotta repair drive train b4 the tweakage. The weird thing tho, autonomous didn't work @ chatsworth at all.

Our autonomous is an adaptable line tracker. It's cool cuz it adapts motor power values based on how long you've been in a particular position and orientation. Pretty nice stuff. Just need to tweak then we're done.
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hehe.. our robot has been driveable for 2 weeks .. and we had 3 auto proggies done and tested and then they switched to 2-wheel drive.. so now we have one (nickname: "track line and jump over the ramp".. lol) Now working on an adaptable dead-reckoning proggie now.. fun fun. Word of advice for auto programs: hardware timers make it soo much easier! Now if i could just quit running out of EEPROM space..
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hehe.. our robot has been driveable for 2 weeks
Only 2 weeks?...
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Why hardware timers? I use a software timer in mine and it works fine. 38 counts = 1 second.
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Hmm.. yeah, that would work <i>if</i> your program didn't have lots of branches in it and executed at a somewhat constant speed.. but personally hardware is better cuz we can count in 1/4 seconds instead of 1/38th.. and like I said, its easier. lol, like 3 lines of code to implement it. much easier methinks compared to some of the solutions ive seen on these boards..
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True I guess. My code's fairly constant in all branches. I've tested the timing with feedback LED lights and it seems constant. We have a counter that counts how long the robot's been on a particular sensor config and adjusts motor power due to that. So I don't need to be ultra precise, and 1/38 is an annoying number to work with tho.
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yeah.. i got pissed off about the timing not working correctly and the weird numbers... so i got myself a 555 and stuck it on our prototype. it worked great, so we kept it.. definitely gonna have one next year too even if there's no automatic programming.. very useful
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ehh, wut was weird was at the scrimmage autonomous didn't activate for us at all. I wanted to test it out, never got a chance, our drive train jumped a gear. Grrrrr. Oh well, we won the scrimmage like 88-32 so we did well without autonomous.

what scares me is at the kickoff the robots never went autonomous. I mean these are engineers we're talking about.
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