How is Autonomous Mode treating you?

[PyroPhin]

heyo!

well, at the start of the season.. all you heard was bragging about compases, external processors, teleportation systems and all kind if kewl stuff that teams were gonna use to blow everyone away during auto mode... well, im wondering how everyone is doing now that the build is pretty much complete. everything live up to your expectations? or bomb miserably?

our team is doing very well.. makes it up the ramp very nicely using the gyrochip to control ascent and descent of the robot on the ramp. it works better than most of us expected it to!

how are YOU doing?

~Pyro

[Josh Hambright]

so far we are upto expectations if not better!

[Matt Attallah]

Autonomous Mode? What is this you speak of? Some sort of new Automobile? Please enlighten me...

[Iain]

Being a rookie team, we just dead-reckon our way to the top of the ramp as quickly as robotly possible. Darn, I wish I'd timed us today when we finally got the turning radius perfect...if I had to guess, I'd say maybe 2 seconds. Three tops.

[mav]

so far our autonomus mode is working just fine and can come out of any of the four starting boxes with out having to change the program plus we can knock over the wall over in about 4to5 seconds.

[Ianworld]

umm we're finishing the robot.

[DanLevin247]

Our robot has yet to move....but we're making progress

[Teedoff101]

If everything goes according to plan, our bot should be able to knock down at least 2/3 of the wall in between 1-2 seconds without moving. We are not designed for speed, so we dont exactly want to race up the ramp. We want to stand still and do something to knock it over. Hopefully everything will go according to plan. Hope to see most of u guys and gals at the SoCal Regional.

[Robb Gerber]

We're just trying to figure out what to do with the last 10 seconds.

[Katie Reynolds]

Auto-mode is getting there. We need to focus on gettnig up to the top of the ramp. We are garunteed to get 26 bins every single time - it's just a matter of getting up there fast enough. We're close - we just have some tweaking to do!

- Katie

[Ian W.]

our first autonomous program is done. the coding was stupidly easy. in fact, i actually haven't had to code anything at all.

just remember, the top of the ramp is a nice place to be, but with all these "king of the hill bots" it's not always the best place to be....

[Joe Ross]

We had quite a discussion last night about what to do after we knocked all the boxes down.

Do we sit at the top of the ramp and hope we don't get run into by another robot still charging up? Do we back up and get out of the way, hoping that we don't spin ourselves around and fly off the edge of the ramp? Do we keep going foward and meet the incoming robot head on?

We decided the latter. I'm very interested in what other teams decided.

[GregT]

Something you robots working off timing should think about -- the robot behaves differently with a less-fully-charged battery. My team found that at 11 volts the robot would do nothing close to what it did at 13 volts.

Greg

[Jeff Waegelin]

We ran tests last night, and are quite impressed with the results. We've had a program for a while, but last night was the first test with our new robot.

[Steven Carmain]

We were suposed to do autonomous mode?

Actually, we almost have the main code done so then auto mode is easy.