Wrong Field Measurements and Bad FMS

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Originally Posted by sarahg2543

Hello,
My team is competing at the Colorado Regional this year and they told me that the field measurements were wrong by an inch for the colored zones, which really affected our autonomous. We weren't the only ones who complained. Not to mention, the tape was diagonal, not straight. The field crew told us that it was the robot who needed to adjust their autonomous, but we just eye-balled positioning our robot by an inch. Did anybody else hear about this? I think it's pretty serious when it is affecting the autonomous of teams, especially since it can really make a difference in points. I also know that the practice field measurements were wrong.

Another issue that we encountered was that the FMS tended to malfunction, especially in the red alliance driver station. I saw a lot of robots lose their communication. The field crew said that it was due to the robot most of the time instead of replaying the match.

This is jut to point out that there are still some things that need to be fixed in fields for the next week of competition.

So sarahg2543, do you still think that the dimension difference of an inch is an issue? Or that the FMS is really faulty?

I don't want to get on yur case, but maybe this can be a good lesson is avoiding conclusions before the data is known. You came to some pretty condemning and strong conclusions up there. Do you think that your approach could have been different here?