Is Autonomous worth it?

[Gdeaver]

Is Autonomous worth it? Absolutely. Stacking 3 yellow totes and moving them into the auto zone and not touching them is a very very hard task. Only a few teams will be able to do it and they will expend allot of resources to do it. We are not putting resources into doing it. A much simpler and very doable autonomous strategy is to have all three alliance members push the tote and can into the auto zone. This is not hard. It can be as simple as putting a 40 to 45" 2x3 or 2 x 4 on the back or front of the robot around 8" off the floor. A piece about 8" sticking out from the left side helps with the can. Encoders are needed to measure distance the robot travels and the robot needs to go straight. With a little practice, the speed and distance can be dialed in and the tote, can and robot be placed in the auto zone. 18 points for a little effort. But all alliance members must do it. All or nothing. Our team may bring a setup to the comp to assist our alliance members with this. Our programers need to be ready to help lesser teams accomplish this. It's really not that hard. 18 point is 18 points. At a district 18 points x 12 matches is not an insignificant addition to your score.