Suggestions | Program challenges for a better robot

[chris.boyle]

I have several ideas that may be of interest:

1) Implement a recording / replay system for autonomous. While in Teleop record the robot movements and then have autonomous read the saved commands and replay them so the robot duplicates the original movements. This is done on the cRIO side.

2) Add an editor to edit the recorded movements to better tune them. This is done on the PC side. We use ftp to retrieve and replace the recorded files.

3) Extend the recording to specific areas of the robot code to watch later. We use this to help improve the logic flow for when automatic actions of the robot should be made. Ie: in this years robot we are using a winch to retract the catapult, when the winch is not moving the separate winch brake needs to be engaged. This control is automatic.