Hypothetical auto proggraming method

[EricH]

Incidentally, this technique is used to set up industrial robots. Generally, those do the same thing over and over... but I suspect that it wouldn't be too difficult to program an FRC robot to pull different "training logs" to do different things.


However, there is one minor issue.

Practice fields at FRC events are NOT representative of actual field distances. They are practice elements (that match up in terms of size to actual elements) that are set up in some semblance of the actual thing, on a patch of carpet of whatever size is available in whatever space is available. But there is no guarantee of same distance, same reaction when hit by a ball, etc.

I suggest that in view of that, some effort be taken by the hardware side to have passed inspection in time to take a lot of trips through the filler line to the competition field, and have one button designated as the "train" button, triggering a different savelog every time it is pressed and held.